artist12
13-05-18, 06:52
Several days ago I was working outside and was taking down some temporary wire fencing that I had in my yard (the chicken wire kind)....
I scratched the underside of my forearm with the edge of the cut fencing...wasn't deep at all, was more like a long paper cut but it did bleed a little. it was part of the fence that was arm height, so it hadn't been buried in the soil or anything like that.
I washed the scratch when I came inside but of course NOW days later of course the thought of tetanus hits me, bam, out of nowhere.
I can't remember my last tetnus booster. I'm 29 so I'm thinking probably has been more than 10 years. But I also can't remember if I had one when I cut my hand on a pair of scissors in college and went to the ER, or trying to rack my brain for any other incident I might have had where I got a booster. Can't remember at all.
Ugh!
I scratched the underside of my forearm with the edge of the cut fencing...wasn't deep at all, was more like a long paper cut but it did bleed a little. it was part of the fence that was arm height, so it hadn't been buried in the soil or anything like that.
I washed the scratch when I came inside but of course NOW days later of course the thought of tetanus hits me, bam, out of nowhere.
I can't remember my last tetnus booster. I'm 29 so I'm thinking probably has been more than 10 years. But I also can't remember if I had one when I cut my hand on a pair of scissors in college and went to the ER, or trying to rack my brain for any other incident I might have had where I got a booster. Can't remember at all.
Ugh!