To start I know what I did was dumb so no need to chastise unless you want.
Basically we’ve had a raccoon around the house for months. Hadn’t really seen him, but we had some trash on a trailer and he would constantly get in it and I eventually cleaned that area up. Then the raccoon started coming around the back porch because I would just throw trash bags there to get them out of the house. Well my fiancé started putting food out there when she’d see him at night. He was timid at first and then warmed up. For some damn reason last week I decided to feed it. It came up and took food out of my hand with its mouth quickly. It didn’t bite me or break the skin but I felt the saliva on my thumb. I washed my hands. The worry comes from me having a small old cut on my thumb. I don’t even think it was a cut, seems more like an area that had a splint as there’s is no scab or discoloration. You see where this is going. I can’t decip if it was an open wound or not and if the saliva got in there. Well the worry just increased until last night I went and got rabies shots. Doctors said it seemed low risk and they were pushing the shots on me. But we decided it was best. Here’s my worries laid out in pros and cons
Pros-
Raccoon didn’t have any symptoms of rabies and hasn’t had any since. Only reason he’s around the house is because of the trash that was previously there and we think he lives under the deck. Plus the raccoon is only coming out at night.
I got a rabies vaccine.
I can’t confirm if the area was even an open wound. It just looks like an area where a splinter was. Which wouldn’t have broke the skin to the level of bleeding.
Cons-
I got the rabies vaccination about 7 days after the raccoon incident and I can’t exscape the thought it might be too late.
I’ve read raccoons can have rabies and not present any symptoms right away.
My stomach is awfully bad and I don’t want to eat at all and it hurts. I’m not going to read rabies symptoms as I have but have forgotten them, so I’m relating that to rabies.
I’m sure there are other pros and cons but that’s the gist of it. Sorry to add to the other rabies posts. I wanted to write this to get it off my chest.