The Day 3 Reality Check & Fighting The System!!

The relief of starting treatment is officially gone. In this episode of Tongue Not Bitten, we dive into Day 3 post-rabies exposure. This is the day where the mental fatigue collides with bureaucratic reality. We break down the physical side effects of the early vaccine series and the sudden, overwhelming stress of realizing something in your care plan is wrong. Tune in as we share the raw struggle of jumping headfirst into the medical system to get errors corrected, the anxiety of advocating for your own life, and how to find your voice when time is ticking. This episode Covers -Managing the immediate side effects and the exhaustion of the vaccine schedule. Having to be your own advocate in a broke down healthcare system-Why you cannot afford to sit back or stay quiet when dealing with a high-stakes protocol like fatal rabies or let your own health suffer because of a negligence.

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Welcome back to Tongue Not Bitten. Today we are going to dive into what day three post-rabies series looked like after the rabid wild fox attack that I encountered unprovokedly looked like. So we left off with me discussing that I had called the CDC, my doctor, and the State Health Department here over the Rabies series and discussed that they had done it wrong on day one, that it was the protocol was deviated from it wasn't done correctly, and that on day three they wanted me to go back when I went to get to the same place to get my series on day three shot to let them know that everybody agreed that it needs to be done correctly. So we're going to talk about how what that day looked like. So that day started out just as crazy as the whole week. And I believe in spiritual warfare. And I feel like I was under attack because it's like been one thing after the other. And then this is crazy, and I'm stressed. I'm not feeling good. And now I got to go back into this place and advocate for myself when I shouldn't have had to. It should have been done right. There's like a whole protocol on this. Everybody should have known this and discuss how they need to do this in the wound again today, and that it needs to be done correctly. So that day started off crazy. Um, it's a Sunday. Day three was a Sunday, and so we were already headed to that ER when um we get a call from my sister-in-law. Um, husband gets a call from my sister-in-law, and she states her and my mother-in-law go to the same church, and my mother-in-law and her were at church, and my mother-in-law wasn't feeling good, and she had a spell. So she was gonna take her to the ER, the same ER that I was scheduled to go and get my um other shot from. So, because this ER is the closest one to our house, besides the one we have here that doesn't do this, and um, it's the newest one. It's a freestanding ER, it's new. Um, so that's why they went there. So they're headed that way. My other sister-in-law is headed that way, and my father-in-law is headed that way, and of course we are because we're going to get this um my vaccine. So we go into the ER after it's a 45-minute drive from our home, and we I sign in and we're all there. We're all waiting. My two sister-in-laws, my husband, and me. And I'm waiting to be called back. And my mother-in-law's doing fine at this point. They had the doctor um go in there and check her, and she's doing good. They're just running some tests and waiting on those to come back, so she's fine, and that makes my heart happy. I'm feeling very sick at this point. Um, not only is my nerves a mess, I'm in flair from everything that's been going on, the stress is outrageous. My head is pounding, my eyesight's bad, I'm sick, and I'm not feeling good. Um, and this is Sunday, and I'm waiting to go back. Plus, I'm upset. I'm trying to rehearse in my head how I'm gonna say all this stuff that I'm gonna have to say to have this corrected on this day, and what the CDC said, what the State Department said, and what my doctor said. So I am waiting. We're waiting. It's very busy this day. I've never seen this place busy before like this, but it's very busy, and that's because the urgent cares in that area are all closed on Sundays. So there's the main ERs up the road, and then there's this freestanding clinic, which is smaller, but it's also new, so there's people there. It's busy this day. So um await to be called back. I get called back, and I tell the nurse who's fixing to give me day three shot that I have some concerns. Um, how do you even know which what was given where? And I was told by the CDC that you cannot give the second vaccine in the same arm or the same area muscular-wise that you gave the first one because it can counteract each other and cancel out, and therefore you don't have it in your system. Okay, so I don't know what was given where, as I discussed, and because no one told me, and I do know I had two shots in the shoulders and two shots in the glutes, the butt. So I'm asking, and she says, It looks like they gave you the vaccine in the right shoulder. So today we're supposed to give it to you in your left. And I say, Well, I don't know, I would like to talk to someone about that because I have concerns the CDC and the health department are saying it was done incorrectly, and that we need to put the global in today in the wound as well. She says, I can't do that, that's not what's on the schedule, so you'll have to just go back out there if you would like to speak to a doctor and wait. And I say, Okay, I'll go back out there and wait. So I go back out there, we're all still here, my sister-in-law's, my husband, and me. And my mother-in-law's doing fine. He wants her just to go see her doctor and have some stuff done. So she's good. So I see her, she's okay, my father-in-law is okay, and they're headed home. So now it's just me and my husband, and we're waiting. So I finally get called back, and the doctor comes in this room when she sits me down, and I'm discussing with him the whole spill again. That, and I don't even know who this person is, I've never seen him. So I'm telling him I have concerns. The CDC said it was done wrong, the health department says it's done wrong, and everybody says, and the globulin needs to be placed in my womb today. And he says, I'm waiting for a call for the from a neurologist. If that call comes through, I'll have to leave. I'm sorry. And I said, I understand. And so, lo and behold, as soon as he got it out, the nurse comes back and gets him, and he's got the call from the neurologist and he has to leave. So then I'm waiting, and the nurse that I saw at this the first day at the station, not that gave me the shot, but the RN that I saw at the station that gave me the information about where to take the fox in that area to get tested for rabies, she comes in. And now I'm having to say this again, and I'm feeling horrible too, by the way. Like, I'm feeling sick. I'm like, why am I gotta tell this over and over again to these people because it's always new people coming in, and it's just crazy. But anyway, so I tell her my concerns, and she says, Okay, hold on, let me go find out some information. So she leaves, and a few more minutes I'm waiting and waiting, and she comes back in and she has this paper with her, and she says, Now I never see the paper, but she has it, and she says, I called the pharmacist here, I called a lady that's over the rabies department here, and they both assured me that you are fine, that even if it went in the glutes and not the wound, that you are covered, that it's in your system and you should be fine. Now, mind you, the CDC said the reason it doesn't go in the glutes, and here's why, for everybody that's wondering why we don't, well, one sciatic nerve damage is why we don't give shots in the glutes anymore, because it can cause nerve damage, okay, and cause issues, and we don't do that. Like you got two good shoulders, you're you know, two thigh two thigh muscles, two shoulders. So we don't usually give it in the glutes anymore, but the reason we don't give this globulin in the glutes is because your butt has fat in it, okay? Your glutes have tushy cushy fat in them, and the fat slows down the medicine from getting into your system, it slows that down or dissolves that out. So you don't you when you're putting something that you need in there as soon as possible, like the globalin for a fatal disease, that global is a kick start to it prompts your immunity to build the antibodies immediately to fight that virus. So you want it in as soon as possible and as quick as possible and in a direct muscle. And when you put in the glutes, the fat can slow that down and keep it from doing what it's it might not ever get there. So you you you don't do that anymore. So she's she's promising me that she's talked to the pharmacist, she's talked to the somebody I don't even know about rabies, and I'm thinking I talked to the health department, he's over the rabies in this whole state. So, like, who are you talking to? But I never talked to these pharmacists, I never talked to these people, but she's sitting there saying that she promises me that I'm covered, everything's gonna be fine. They don't need to place this in the wound today, that I'm good, it's been done right, that he placed it. Now, mind you, she's not the one that gave it to me. This guy, I don't see. But she's promising me that he gave it to me in the muscle and that I'm fine, that he gave it to me in the in and I'm good. Okay. The right arm. And so I'm like, oh, okay. And then so the doctor comes in briefly and he goes, Are we good? And I'm like, I guess. I mean, I don't I don't know because I don't know what went where. And I'm like, I'm still confused. I'm sick, I don't feel good. I've been here all day. I don't I don't know what's going on. So, but I have to get this shot. So she's like, Do you want the shot? And I'm like, you know, what kind of question is that? Yes, I want the shot. This are you kidding me? Yes, I do, but I would have loved for y'all to put this in the wound, the the globulin also in the wound, but apparently you're sitting there saying you're not gonna do that. I'm covered. All right, just give me the shot. So she gives me the shot. I'm feeling a little bit better because she's like, Okay, you're covered, blah, blah, blah. Everybody's nice, promising me left and right that I'm taking care of on day three. So we go home, I'm still unsettled. You know, I think here's here's what I know. God gives you this discernment, and it's important that you listen to your gut and your head and your heart and you follow that discernment. And I still was very uneasy because number one, I didn't talk to this pharmacist, and I'm thinking, what is the pharmacist? I mean, like, come on, what what are you the no, the CDC said this is still not right, and I I don't I'm still feeling very uneasy on day three. I'm sick as a dog. I usually don't work on Mondays. This is a Sunday, but I had promised to cover a shift for someone on Monday so they could go see their daughter cheer and um out of state, and so I promised I'd cover for her on Monday, and we were switching shifts, and she was gonna cover for me on Tuesday and work for my Tuesday shift. So I'm feeling really, really bad, and I'm having to go in on Monday, and I'm I'm like, and I go in and I'm sick, and I'm like, this is crazy. I don't feel good. I'm still unsettled on day three about what happened, and I'm still confused, but it's Sunday, and I cannot call anybody while I'm at the ER for them to tell them what they told me. I can't get a hold of anybody, the State Department's closed, CDC, you know, I can't get a hold of anybody. So I'm having to just get this shot and deal with this again at home with the stress of knowing that it's still not done right, and that they still are arguing against the people that actually create this protocol and that have done the research and know why this has to happen. This R hen is still like telling me this is done right, and I'm like, I you're not even the person that gave it to me. What is going on? The doctor wasn't even in there long enough. I had I already had told them I had PTSD from another past emergency room experience that was handled incorrectly, and I'm like, this is this is nuts. I don't, I don't, I still don't feel very good. I feel a little bit better, but I still don't feel I don't feel great about this. So I had planned, couldn't call them on Monday because I'm having to work on Monday, but I still plan on calling the CDC, the health department, and my doctor to figure out what's going on and what should I do. And that they called the pharmacist and that they called somebody that I don't even know, and they assured me I was fine. That's where we're leaving off on day three. Still crazy, still having to advocate for myself, still important that you know if you've ever experienced these things, it it or if any anything that you go through, research it, make sure it's been done right, ask the questions, be your own advocate. It's so important because humans will drop the ball. And I've never seen so much arrogancy in healthcare in my life. The healthcare system is nothing like it used to be at all. It is really bad. And we're in the state that I'm in, it's number 49 on the metrics system, and we have only 50 states. So, I mean, healthcare really needs to be under control. That's why I don't do it anymore in a traditional setting. That's why I never will again. Until it changes, this is this is bad. This is really bad. And it's important to know how things go, it's important to go above heads, it's important to question things, it's important. I mean, you shouldn't have to because you're sick and you're depending on the people that actually are educated in this and that should have sworn to an oath to do the right thing, to do the right thing. But apparently that's not the case anymore. And it's sad, it's terrible, but that's the reality we're living in now. And so for the future, if anybody has to go through this, um, first of all, if you have an animal bite by a domestic or a wild animal, um, the only place that they don't put the globalin, usually the the RIG immunity globulin, is in phalanges, which is fingers and toes. Um that that's bony tissue. They usually don't put it there, but they'll put it around there. So the protocol goes like this the globalin should be placed in the wound or the scratch itself. Okay. That's that's the guideline. That's the holy grail of where it goes. Okay, that's the that's the deal. So we're leaving on day three. Still don't have the globalin placed where it needs to be. I'm still fighting a system that seems to be broken. I'm still worried for my life. Negligence has been committed. And on this week, I was going to call and make sure that everybody knew what was going on. So we'll discuss next time, day seven, and what that looked like, what everybody said, and what happened. I hope you have a great day. Thanks for listening and tuning in and feel well, feel beautiful, and stay safe.