Mildly Infuriating

Choose your capitalist fate!

Path A: medical bankruptcy.

Path B: incurable disease and certain horrible death.

Quite a system the wealthy have built for us. I'll be terribly disappointed if the book doesn't end with a bunch of guillotines.

Call your lawyer and sue the shit out of those raccoons. I hear they're rich.

I’m sorry this happened to you, but it’s better to be safe than sorry. By the time clinical signs of rabies present, you’re already a “dead man walking” so to say. I hope you and your dog are able to recover swiftly!

Post exposure shots should be covered by nearly every insurance. The preexposure ones are not.

Been there. Happened to me in grad school but I woke up to a bat on my leg. Thing with bats ks you can't tell if they bit you because their teeth leave little baby pinpricks that look like damn near everything else that bites, including mosquitoes.

I got a bill for $13,000. Basically 1000 for every shot to the ass they gave me. I had to pay it from my student loans. Yay America.

Man I've NEVER heard of a raccoon attack that's fucked up. I've interacted with a million raccoons (including one that broke into my kitchen once) and they have never come close to attacking me. Sounds like they might indeed have rabies. Glad you and your pup sound ok. Just call in sick if you need the sleep tomorrow.

On the positive side, you are now one of an elite group of those who have a raccoon attack story.

I just got the rabies series of vaccines.

Bill was $9800. After insurance it was $285.

No offense, but you’ll probably be waiting a long time. ERs typically have to deal with many simultaneous crises and you aren’t an emergent situation.

Some urgent care centers might have a rabies vaccine on hand.

I had a similar situation happen to me actually.

The rabies shot sucks but the most annoying part is returning for the follow-ups. The tetanus booster I had to get was much much more painful.

Good luck, sending positive vibes your way!

Sucks to be waiting, but while your sitting there, maybe watch a few videos of people suffering from the effects of rabies. You probably won’t feel so bad about the wait after that.

Happy your pooch is safe and sound, as well

Only in the US is it they expensive.

Otherwise infuriating and time-consuming... Perhaps everywhere. But really, rabies is not! something to mess around with. Even with the smallest chance.

America is almost the last country in the world that doesn't have free healthcare, except for Africa.

https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/countries-with-universal-healthcare

My tired brain read this as you had to pay the raccoons $1500 or they would give you rabies. Can't even go into the woods without being extorted.

I'd just tell your work to fuck off.

That's a helluva expensive shot. I mean, you should definitely get it, but nobody should have to pay that much for it. I guess that's USA...

Quite the chance card you drew…

Sorry you have to go through this! Seems like a valid excuse to call out sick if you’re in the ER.

Blegh, I wish you the best of luck.

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I bet some asshole neighbor is feeding them and they are on vacation. So they see human and they think "food".

Don't feed any wild animals, your doing them a favor.

This is one reason why I'm glad there's no rabies in Australia.

man that really sucks. i had to get rabies shots a couple years ago and it was not fun. for my second follow up shot i thought about skipping the wait in the ER and going to a pharmacy 40 minutes away that offered rabies vaccines, only to find out there’s a difference between pre-exposure and post-exposure shots and having to go to the ER anyway. if you end up also getting tired of the 3 hour waits in the ER and look for an alternative, i would strongly recommend making sure they offer post-exposure vaccines.