THE DAY THE FOX ATTACKED !!

On April 30th 2026 ,my life changed in a instant when a wild , rabid fox launched an unprovoked attack right in my own backyard .While local news outlets reported the location and some happenings incorrectly .I am setting the story straight right here on Tongue Not Bitten: this terrifying encounter happened on the Tallapoosa County side of Tallassee ,Alabama. In this raw and unfiltered episode ,I take you through Day 1 of the ordeal-from the shocking moment of the attack to the frantic scramble for medical help . Hear the story of the attack , the survival , the truth about how it was handled and this actual wildlife nightmare where the fox seems to be the least of my survival nightmare. 

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Alright, so we're just gonna jump into this. Um, as if you don't know, on April 30th, 2026, I got attacked by a wild rabid fox. Yeah, that's right. Crazy. I already have lupus, I already have MS problems, I already have autoimmune, I already have a lot going on. Um, we're in transition, we're building um my new spa, and it's just crazy. And on April 30th, 2026, I got attacked by a wild rabid fox, unprovoked, in my backyard. And here is how that day looked. Okay, so I went down the road um that morning. I got up and I was like, I'm gonna go down the road to my mentor, my friend's hair salon, and go help her out and go hang out with her and help her at her salon. And I got up and I was like, I wore scrubs for the last two days. So, and I love clothes and shoes and purses and stuff like that, but I wear scrubs mostly. So I was like, Okay, I'm gonna wear something cute. It's a beautiful summer day. I'm gonna wear something cute, it's sunshining, and I went, I'm gonna wear some sandals, you know, some shorts, some cute shorts or cute dress or something. But when I went to go get dressed, have lupus, and I was kind of like, eh, not feeling it. I'm gonna wear soft cargo pants, my chunky tennis shoes. I love some chunky tennis shoes, platform tennis shoes. They're comfortable, and with lupus, I like to feel comfortable. So I was like, okay, I'm gonna wear this in a cute blouse. So that's what I did. So God's hands was all over this day from day one and to start one with that right there, just by what I was wearing. Okay, long pants, cute shirt, and some big chunky tennis shoes. Okay. So go down there, hang out with her for a while, and then she's closing early because her daughter has a baseball game, and she's like, it's four o'clock, and she's like, So what are you gonna do for the rest of your day? And I'm like, you know, God has brought me sunflowers in my backyard, in my garden, my new garden buyer spa. I said, I'm gonna go home and I'm gonna water those sunflowers because God brought me these sunflowers. We didn't plant them, they just showed up. So I'm gonna go water my beautiful sunflowers and got home, which she's only like a couple minutes down the road. Got home, put my stuff up, headed to the backyard, and we have woods all in behind our yard. Um, we have land. My father-in-law that lives next door has land in a pond, and behind us is a lot of woods. It runs into a hunting property, it's like a lot of woods. So we're used to animals. Um, we hunt and fish as well, so it's like we're not scary animals, we know all about them, but they're usually, you know, nocturnal foxes and coons and stuff like that. And we see them, but they kind of scare off away from us, and we have cats, and you know, you don't see them a whole lot unless it's night and they're like on a camera or something. So I am putting my stuff down, going to the backyard to water my sunflowers, and I was in the middle of ordering my sunflowers when out of the woods, and I was actually facing the woods, which is another God moment. I did my back wasn't turned towards where he he ran out. I was facing where he came out, and I was ordering my sunflowers because that's where they were. So I saw him when he ran out of the woods, and I raised my hands up in the air to wave because I know that usually they're scared of humans and he's gonna run off. Well, he didn't run off, he ran still wide open and he grabbed on to my leg, just wrapped his arms around my leg like a cat. It's crazy. So I forgot that they could do that, it was weird. So he's biting me, making this weird noise all over. He's trying to bite me. He's got a hold and he's stuck in my pants, and I'm like kicking him off. I kick him and I'm kicking him and I'm kicking him, I'm trying to kick him off. And so, like, he's still trying to bite and stuff, and I'm kicking him off. And I'm like, you know, there's nothing to pick up, and if you bend down, he's probably gonna get you, you know, you near your head. It's just it was like a lot of thoughts going on in my head, like, oh my god, like, oh my gosh, I gotta get this fox off me. This is crazy. So I'm beating him off, I'm kicking him off, and then and I was gonna I'm like, if I could just choke him out, and I went to go bend down to get it to wrap my hands around, and then he starts trying to bite at my hands, and so like I raise my hands in the air, and then I start kicking him off again, and I'm off balance, and it's crazy. And then I finally kick him off of me and I run to our back deck porch and I turn around and I'm like trying to scare him away because my father-in-law is next door, and I'm hollering for my father-in-law because I saw him in the garden when I pulled up, and he's you know, I saw him and I was like, Okay, he's got guns, I'm gonna holler for him. I'm trying to, but I'm still trying to scare the fox away away from my back deck because I don't know if my daughter's fixing to go out the door for her job, and I don't know where my cats are. This is all crazy, and you know, in my head, I'm like trying to just protect everybody. But then this is another God moment. I had a sink that I had custom ordered and it had come in. So my husband had got off work early that day, and I didn't even know he was there. So when I hit the deck and I'm trying to scare the fox off, he goes, Don't scare him off. Did he get you? And I was like, at this point, I didn't think he had because I had started wailing on him as soon as he latched onto my leg. So I'm like, I don't think so. He said, Don't scare him off when you shoot him. So unfortunately, he went in there and he shot him and he shot him in the neck, and he did not die. So then my father-in-law and my husband had him, and he had to shoot him two more times in the chest before he died. So it's four o'clock, it's five o'clock, probably by this time. I go in the house and I tell my daughter because she heard all the commotion, and I told her to get the hydrogen peroxide, and I'm on the phone and I call the police department and animal control to let them know in this area what had happened because we live in city limits and there's a ballpark right here, there's a senior citizen right here, there's a family dollar by our house, and there is a ballpark and a park for children across the street. So if there's one, I'm not sure. I know he's pretty rabid. I'm pretty sure he was rabid before he was even confirmed rabid because of his behavior and what he was doing and how long it took him, you know, for them to get rid of him. So it was crazy. So I did that. Then I called the Alabama Public Department of Health and I'm calling our State Department and letting them know what happened to report it. And then I call um two, I called two hospitals and they didn't have the rabies vaccine. And so I called the third and they did, and it's an ER called the ER. And so my mother-in-law drove me to the ER to get my um shots because I knew as a healthcare provider, I know that that's like you've got to get that in there. I'm you, I'm pretty sure he was rabid. I let my husband and my father-in-law handle the fox, and me and my mother-in-law drive to the eco the ER, which is about 45 minutes away. So I'm there, I'm signing in, I'm telling them what happened. I get in there, and all I had done was poured hydrogen peroxide on it and maybe wash it a little bit, but not long because I was like, we got to get to the ER. So I did that. I go and I sit down. Um, they they call me back, um, they check my blood pressure and my vitals. I tell them what happened. Then they send me to a room. It was quiet there. They was they didn't have a lot of people there. It wasn't busy. I'm thinking that's another God moment. You know, they're gonna get me back soon. Um, everybody was kind of hanging out in the nurse station and you know, going, wow, you know, that will happen. Did that. I get in a room and I'm sitting there and a guy comes in and he doesn't say, you know, who he is or anything. And he sits down in the chair across from the bed, and I'm on the bed, and he's away from me, and he goes, and I tell him what happened, and so he he he tells me, he's like, You know, that they're gonna put the shot in the wound. And I'm like, Well, you know, like I don't care. I mean, well, no, but you know, whatever, because whatever works, you know. And so then he leaves, and this other nurse comes in a little bit later, and he has three valves and he puts them on the bed, first of all. And I'm a big cross-contamination no no person, but I'm traumatized, so this isn't affecting me as much as it would have if I would have been like myself going, Oh, why are you putting those on my bed? But um, anyway, so he puts them on the bed and I say out loud, I know you're going to place these in my womb. And he goes, No, we don't do that. Um, we're not gonna do that. Um, so and then I don't even know, I can't even remember hardly like what happened then. I just know that I was getting a techno shot. I'm supposed to get um a vaccine. Because we discussed the um my techno shot, and I think I was gonna be due for it soon. So I was just like, go ahead and give me a techno shot, and then you're supposed to get a rabies vaccine, and you're supposed to get the RIG, the rabies immune globalin, and it usually goes in the wound. But at this point, I'm just like traumatized, you know, it's not up to me to take care of myself at this point, it's up to the healthcare facility. So, anyway, he gives me one shot in the right um shoulder intermuscular, and then he gives me another one in the left intermuscular, and then he says, We're gonna give you this and the glutes, and so I'm like, and in my head the whole time I was kind of like, Why are we giving me a shot in the glutes? Like, we don't hardly ever do that anymore, but okay, well, whatever. And so, like, he gives me one in one my left glute and one in my right glute. Okay, so we go home. I don't he says, Hey, take a picture of this. This is what you're gonna get. You'll come back here and get your other series, and just take a picture of it. And I'm and in my head, also again, I was kind of like, Why am I taking a picture of this? What it what is this? What it anyway? It was like the shot thing. What do you it was a whole like what you're gonna get next time? And so I took a picture of it. I still have that picture, and then we go out and a nurse at the desk says, Here's the um rabies tester here in this area, and you can take the fox there, which I had already called the Alabama Department of Public Health and found out where to take the fox. But anyway, she gave me that area's um place to get the fox tested for rabies, and so we took that, and then I didn't have discharge papers, and I went up front and I asked what my pay was, and I paid in full for my emergency room visit, and we left. Me and my mother-in-law left, and like the whole time I'm kind of like out of it thinking, Wow, what a day! What just happened? I mean, not just from the fox attack to this, like what happened? So I'm going home, I get home, I'm still kind of like, like, wow, did this just really happen? I'm still not quite all myself right now. And then I know that they knew I had lupus because it was on the paperwork, and I was kind of like, I knew I told him I had lupus. I'm trying to I'm trying to replay the day thinking, God, what did I tell him I had lupus? Like I have an autoimmune disease, and like, but they knew is it because I've been there before in the system, not to the ER there, but in the hospital, so I knew they had my paperwork, but I was just all confused. So as I'm there at night trying to sleep from this crazy day and just all not happy at all, and just kind of freaking out about all the all the things because rabies is fatal. Once you get that, like that's fatal, it's a fatal disease, it's life-threatening. It is is the CDC has guidelines for it, there's a protocol out there. You know, I'm I'm freaking out now because not only do I have lupus and have to worry about this. I'm like, I don't think he did it right. Like, nothing seemed to be done. Like, I've been in healthcare for a long time, and this isn't the way it nobody addressed my wound, nobody looked at my wound, nobody washed my wound, nobody done anything. He didn't tell me which shots were going where. The globalin, the gl the globalin wasn't the immune-boosting globalin that as a passive immunization medication to give you directly into the exposure where the scratch or bite happened. And mine's my lower leg now. My lower left leg is where he got me one spot. And I'm thankful for that for beating him off. But I'm thinking that one person said you're gonna put it there, and then it's not there. Like, what's going on? So I start researching, and then I'm on the CDC website, and I'm looking, and this it's not nothing's been done right. So I'm like freaking out. I'm like, wait a minute, nothing was done right. So the next morning I couldn't sleep at all, as you can imagine, because now I'm a thinker and a researcher, and I'm just like, this is crazy, this is nuts, and I'm in healthcare, and this nothing was done right. So I get up the next morning and I call my doctor, and we're discussing, you know, like I'm I'm leaving a message, like, hey, call me back, this is what happened, you know, and blah, blah, blah. Then I call the CDC and I get a hold of their department, and I ask for their department that specializes in rabies, and and she goes over their protocol, and I tell her what happened, and she said, No, it was administered in correctly. You need to find out what he gave you in your glutes, and I'm not sure why he didn't give it to you in your lower leg because it's supposed to go in the wound. Okay, so then I call the Alabama Department of Health that's over this, and they agreed with the CDC, of course, and me that know that it's supposed to go in the wound, nothing's been done right. This is crazy. So I call the hospital and ask to speak to someone in the back because I was the one that got bit by the rabid fox and yada yada, and I don't think it was administered right, so I need to speak to somebody about that. And so I get a hold of this guy, he doesn't tell me who he is, and I tell him, you know, hey, I had this, they gave it, they gave me two shots in the shoulder and two in the glutes, and I need to know what went in the glutes and why it wasn't given in the leg and like what's going on. And he gets smart with me and he goes, Oh my gosh, that's the way we do it now. That's not, it doesn't have to be that way. Now, mind you, I just got off the phone with the CDC and they say it hasn't changed, and that's the way you're doing it, and they're done it wrong. So, anyway, I hang up with him because I'm not arguing with him. I go and I call my other doctor, and the nurse practitioner and the doctor both agree that no, they need to do it again. Well, there I have to go in for day three shot. Now I'm feeling pretty bad at this point. It feels it makes you feel like you've got the flu. This shot, and I already got lupus, so everything happens was causing really bad reactions. My joints were hurting, my head was pounding, my eyesight was like acting crazy, and I take herbal naturals. I do that, I mix them myself for my lupus. That's what helps me get through the day. I do that. I'm an herbalist, I'm registered, and I take care of myself. And so no one told me what not to take. There was no dismissal, discharge papers on what not to do, what to do, what you're gonna feel like. Nobody went over any of those things either in the ER. Nothing like that was done. This was totally mishandled and neglected, and now I'm angry because you have I've I've never I've been in healthcare for a long time, and this is just not how that goes. And this it was absurd, it was awful. So now I'm angry because I'm like, this is crazy. Um, I didn't get discharge papers, nobody told me what to eat, what to drink. I assume it's the same. Who knows? They acted like I was supposed to just know like this happens all the time, right? And it doesn't. And so I'm angry and I'm like, you gotta be kidding me. I don't even know what to do. I'm on these herbals, they have a list of what I take in the in their records because I've been to that, you know, hospital before. So nobody said, Don't take this, don't take this. And I actually know as an herbalist that some of these herbs that I take suppress my immune system so I'm not in pain and not having flares with my lupus. And I'm like, so if it suppresses my immune system, then I'm not gonna have enough immunity built up to fight this virus. So I'm not gonna take these now. I'm gonna tell myself as a healthcare provider, I'm not taking this now. Okay, so I don't do that. You know, I'm like, this is crazy. I already don't smoke and drink, so I don't have to worry about that part. But it's like, oh my gosh, nothing was done by protocol. I mean, my wound wasn't washed, nobody looked at it, nothing's been done, and the CDC is saying they're doing it wrong, the State Department say they're doing it wrong, and so anyway, my doctor and me discussed it, and like they're like, on day three, when you go in to get your other shot, because and that's let's see, that happened on a Thursday, April the 30th. On that Sunday, I was scheduled to go in for another vaccine at the same place, the same ER, just to sign in and get it. So on day three, I'm supposed to go back. So he said, when you go back, let them know they did not do it. You need to know what was put where, what was put your glutes. You need to let them know that the globalin was not placed around your wound and it needs to be placed around your wound, and that you have questions and concerns, and this needs to be corrected. So, day three was supposed to be on Sunday, so we are gonna, and I'm already scheduled to go in, so I'm like, okay, but this doesn't make me rest better, it doesn't make me feel better, I feel horrible, this is awful, and now I'm stressed because nothing was handled correctly. So there's that. That's how that left, and I will tell you next Monday how day three went. And let me just say, wow, okay, just wow. Thanks for listening. I hope you enjoyed this. I hope this helps. Um, let's see, if you've ever had to deal with something like this, like a wild animal attack or an animal that bit you. Um, I'm hoping that you'll understand like how that will go. I hope that this helps with that and what to say, what not to say. And there is a CDC out there that you can talk to actually, a doctor over that program, and you can call and ask for them, and they will let you know how that goes. So, all right. I hope you stay tuned to next Monday, and we'll be talking about day three and how that went for me. Have a great day, feel beautiful, feel well.