challenger
Stainless
- Joined
- Mar 6, 2003
- Location
- Hampstead, NC-S.E. Coast
Ok boys & men, settle in.
I walked out of my shop Thursday and saw a small creature flopping on the grass. I first though it was a bird but it turned out to be a tiny bat. We've all seen these soaking up mosquitoes in the evenings. I went to it and it couldn't fly away. I think it had a broken arm (wing?). Of course I had to investigate it and, in doing so, it bit the pad of my thumb. I felt it's needle sharp teether and it let go. I decided to apply a lot of pressure toward the top of my thumb to see if it broke the skin which it didn't. Working, dominant hand, thumb pads are pretty thick IMO.
I tell this to a good friend, the following day, and he freaks! He's saying I gotta get checked out. I did some internet research and became informed that ill be dead within a month give or take a few decades. I hesitantly called my MD and told him I was bit by a bat. After he composed himself he said that, if the bat didn't break the skin, i shouldn't worry about it.
I have zero symptoms other than I feel like my eye teeth getting longer
Anyone think I should be concerned? About the bat bite that is..
I walked out of my shop Thursday and saw a small creature flopping on the grass. I first though it was a bird but it turned out to be a tiny bat. We've all seen these soaking up mosquitoes in the evenings. I went to it and it couldn't fly away. I think it had a broken arm (wing?). Of course I had to investigate it and, in doing so, it bit the pad of my thumb. I felt it's needle sharp teether and it let go. I decided to apply a lot of pressure toward the top of my thumb to see if it broke the skin which it didn't. Working, dominant hand, thumb pads are pretty thick IMO.
I tell this to a good friend, the following day, and he freaks! He's saying I gotta get checked out. I did some internet research and became informed that ill be dead within a month give or take a few decades. I hesitantly called my MD and told him I was bit by a bat. After he composed himself he said that, if the bat didn't break the skin, i shouldn't worry about it.
I have zero symptoms other than I feel like my eye teeth getting longer
Anyone think I should be concerned? About the bat bite that is..
Last edited by a moderator: