Re: Anyone here remembers AZ? And rabies fear...
Originally Posted by
Fishmanpa
Respectfully, it's because they're simply figments of an anxious mind and
very vivid imagination It really is as simple as that. There was one here where someone felt a drop of liquid hit them and was convinced it was from a rabid bat in a tree. This is a kin to that as well as the invisible bats, dog licks, cat scratches etc.
Go read some of the other rabies threads and your response to others and ask yourself if your scenario is any more realistic.
Hope you feel better soon!
Positive thoughts
I read other rabid threads, and yes most of them seem fictitious. However, mine involves a real bite, not an imaginary one. Although taken one step further, a rabbit bit by a fictitious bat or a raccoon is the same thing.
I just found a paper from 2016 by CDC. According to it, only one small animal - a squirrel - (of many squirrels, mice and rabbits tested) has ever tested positive for rabies in Florida. It was a wild flying squirrel. Not a pet bunny.
Thanks for your support Fishmanpa! I just need to survive until tomorrow and have a more detailed chat with the daycare owners about the bunny's history of being outside, and see it too. Despite all the rational reasoning, I am still terrified.
NancyW, I went to a doc and without success. I am afraid the truth is that I am not getting a vaccine unless the bunny is either killed and tested positive, or dies/gets sick in 10 days of observation. None of that sits well with me but it is what it is.
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The uncomfortable truth is that my exposure is considered very low risk for rabies, but my anxiety disagrees. So my mind is trying to tie all sorts of impossible stories to make it appear more scary. And that disagreement is what's causing me so much emotional suffering.
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