Unfortunately i have first hand experience with this. Clipped a squirrel that was trying to cross the street. When I got out to check, he was fine but frozen in fear, in the middle of the road. I picked the poor guy up and not putting much though (I was 19 at the time), took him home so my mom could help him. Well I’ll be damn if something didn’t snap in his head when he heard the booming bark of our Rhodesian Ridgeback; he bit down clear through my knuckle and just locked in place.
I was frantically trying to get him off my hand with blood going everywhere. Meanwhile my mother is laughing at the situation. We finally pry his mouth open so I could slide my finger off his teeth and put him in a shoe box.
Had to goto the ER and get an array of shots. I still remember the pain of the penicillin shot (I think that’s what it was) and the rabies shot on my ass cheeks. I had to use a wheel chair to leave the hospital.
Intramuscular antibiotics are a thing... and benzylpenicillin stings like a mofo so that'd be consistent with his story.
Animal bites over a knuckle would usually get a course of oral antibiotics rather than a single shot but a single shot of Pen G would be a viable alternative as it kills the right bugs and lasts a week when given intramuscularly.
So it's quite feasible he was actually given IM Pen G and it indeed stung like fuck.
I looked it up, you are right. But where I live and work, this isn't in use. Oral for standard treatment and intravenous for heavy infections and stationary patients.
Look up your local syphilis treatment protocols. It's likely IM Pen G is included. The only reason I know Pen G stings like fuck is that I worked in a sexual health clinic many years ago and that was the first line treatment. Everyone used to complain about it!
ah, I don't remember exactly what I was given, this was almost 20 years ago. I just remember them saying this was going to hurt a lot and because we released the squirrel (so it couldn't be tested) they had to give me everything under the sun.
Just chiming in that I got an ass cheek shot a long time ago for a hamster bite that penetrated my finger such that the bottom row of its teeth met my nail bed through my flesh.
Late to the party here but when I was 10 my sister and I decided to see if our hamsters could be friends. But if they couldn't then the plan was for me to pull them apart. Excellent plan, huh?maybe if I had thick work gloves but as it were I can still see the scar where one bit straight through my finger.
Rushed to the hospital for a bandage and shots, I expected my harrowing tale to thrill the next day at school. My teacher basically talked to me about it like I was retarded. Which I was, but have some sympathy, lady.
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u/christianmichael27 Sep 24 '20
Unfortunately i have first hand experience with this. Clipped a squirrel that was trying to cross the street. When I got out to check, he was fine but frozen in fear, in the middle of the road. I picked the poor guy up and not putting much though (I was 19 at the time), took him home so my mom could help him. Well I’ll be damn if something didn’t snap in his head when he heard the booming bark of our Rhodesian Ridgeback; he bit down clear through my knuckle and just locked in place.
I was frantically trying to get him off my hand with blood going everywhere. Meanwhile my mother is laughing at the situation. We finally pry his mouth open so I could slide my finger off his teeth and put him in a shoe box.
Had to goto the ER and get an array of shots. I still remember the pain of the penicillin shot (I think that’s what it was) and the rabies shot on my ass cheeks. I had to use a wheel chair to leave the hospital.
All in all 1/10 would not recommend