rabies shots - anyone gotten them?

anothername wrote:

I woke up in the middle of the night a few nights ago and heard a bat flying around my room. I trapped it in the room and slept on the couch, and the next morning it was hiding behind a curtain so I just opened up the windows that night and it was gone the next day. I should have known better than to start googling about rabies, but now I'm seeing that you can get bit without noticing it, and rabies symptoms can take up to a year to appear and then you're pretty much screwed.

I feel like I'm being paranoid since (1) I'm pretty sure I didn't get bitten and (2) the bat wasn't acting obviously unhealthy, but I also don't want to die of rabies. So - what would you do (or what have you done) in this situation? And to keep it running related, if you've gotten the shots, how did they affect your training? I hear they can be pretty painful.

(I know, don't take serious medical advice from letsrun. I have a call in to the doctor but thought I'd crowdsource while waiting to hear back.)

anothername wrote:

I woke up in the middle of the night a few nights ago and heard a bat flying around my room. I trapped it in the room and slept on the couch, and the next morning it was hiding behind a curtain so I just opened up the windows that night and it was gone the next day. I should have known better than to start googling about rabies, but now I'm seeing that you can get bit without noticing it, and rabies symptoms can take up to a year to appear and then you're pretty much screwed.

I feel like I'm being paranoid since (1) I'm pretty sure I didn't get bitten and (2) the bat wasn't acting obviously unhealthy, but I also don't want to die of rabies. So - what would you do (or what have you done) in this situation? And to keep it running related, if you've gotten the shots, how did they affect your training? I hear they can be pretty painful.

(I know, don't take serious medical advice from letsrun. I have a call in to the doctor but thought I'd crowdsource while waiting to hear back.)

anothername wrote:

I woke up in the middle of the night a few nights ago and heard a bat flying around my room. I trapped it in the room and slept on the couch, and the next morning it was hiding behind a curtain so I just opened up the windows that night and it was gone the next day. I should have known better than to start googling about rabies, but now I'm seeing that you can get bit without noticing it, and rabies symptoms can take up to a year to appear and then you're pretty much screwed.

I feel like I'm being paranoid since (1) I'm pretty sure I didn't get bitten and (2) the bat wasn't acting obviously unhealthy, but I also don't want to die of rabies. So - what would you do (or what have you done) in this situation? And to keep it running related, if you've gotten the shots, how did they affect your training? I hear they can be pretty painful.

(I know, don't take serious medical advice from letsrun. I have a call in to the doctor but thought I'd crowdsource while waiting to hear back.)