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Tuesday, August 22, 2006

Read all about it A mother of two small children in Florida had bats flying around her apartment, which is bizarre enough in itself. Bats? Have YOU ever had multiple BATS flying around your house? This mother of the year refuses rabies vaccinations for the children. Several years ago, a guy out in the middle of Nowheresville corralled a single bat in a bag to get it out of his shed, and later died an agonzing rabid death. He had been very slightly scratched by the bat and didn't realize it. So say again why you'd refuse vaccinations when you had several bats flying around your Florida apartment...we SoCali folks are confused. (Confusion clears as readers note this all takes place in Florida...)

Tuesday, August 22, 2006 4:06:51 PM (Pacific Daylight Time, UTC-07:00)

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Wednesday, August 23, 2006 10:46:36 AM (Pacific Daylight Time, UTC-07:00)

god damn it! where is the SEX in this?!!!
death and rabies and agony, and no god damned SEX!
we pay good money for this site and.... what? we don't pay for this? oh, nevermind then. this muffin is sure tasty today...

oh, i ganja

Wednesday, August 23, 2006 11:19:43 AM (Pacific Daylight Time, UTC-07:00)

Well the woman had to have sex to have kids, right?

michela

Wednesday, August 23, 2006 3:33:21 PM (Pacific Daylight Time, UTC-07:00)

Dare I say it? Oh, alright, cull the herd!

Marla

Wednesday, August 23, 2006 5:37:00 PM (Pacific Daylight Time, UTC-07:00)

I'm still trying to get the visual of living in a apartment with bats flying around.

fruity

Thursday, August 24, 2006 9:21:13 PM (Pacific Daylight Time, UTC-07:00)

I hear ya, bats in an apartment?? Can you even imagine the cockroaches in that place? I bet the kids can ride them!

Marla

Friday, August 25, 2006 1:56:49 PM (Pacific Daylight Time, UTC-07:00)

rabies shots hurt like a sonofabitch (and leave a LOVELY bruise to boot)...

and at $150/pop (three shots pre-exposure... FIVE shots post-, if you don't have first three preventative), damn 'spensive...

to top it off, i had to pratically *beg* the woman at OCHA to give me the honor of shelling out $450 for just one of my many travel vaccinations... oy!

but worth it... duh!

kmt

Friday, August 25, 2006 3:10:39 PM (Pacific Daylight Time, UTC-07:00)

You know I've heard it hurts like hell too; but my doggie dogg doesn't seem to mind them much. I wonder why? Ah the difference is probably pre- vs. post- exposure.

michela

Friday, August 25, 2006 3:58:59 PM (Pacific Daylight Time, UTC-07:00)

Well, there's no diff between pre- and post- shots (five shots for humans, at least... don't know what's in the cute poochie shot, but i'm glad it doesn't seem to bother him/her)...

if you're getting a preventative vaccination, it's three before... then, if you're bitten/scratched/whatever, you need the other two...

the idea is that, if something happens and you're far from medical facilities, you've already got three of the five... so you have time.

for example, when i'm kickin' it in a buddhist temple in the far reaches of tibet in a few weeks, and if a rabid dog runs up and bites me in the ass (karma? :), i won't die an excruciating death (at least not at that point).

of course, i wouldn't have to worry about this so much if the chinese gov't made efforts to control the canine population/vaccinate the animals... this is their solutions (doggie-lovers be warned)... http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/asiapcf/08/01/china.dogs.ap/index.html

kmt

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