Posts Tagged ‘vaccine’

I was speaking with a friend of mine the other day and was told that she had just been to the doctor to get a Tetanus shot due to her cutting her finger and it getting infected.  This made me think of the last time I received a Tetanus shot and the story behind it.  I told her the story and she thought it was hilarious and told me to share with all of my readers.  So, I am hoping that you find this story just as funny as she did…

I was 12 years old and on a family trip out to visit my grandparents for dinner one Sunday.  I was kinda bored and looking for something to do, so I decided to go outside and sit on the porch.  Well, my grandfather had this squirrel that would come to visit him everyday and get peanuts off of his deck railing and I thought it would be a great idea to “train” the squirrel to do tricks by using these peanuts as bait.  So off I go, calling this squirrel over, which took about 30 minutes in itself.  I thought I was the greatest…getting this squirrel to come over to me to get a peanut!  Being the over-achiever that I was, I decided that it would be a GREAT idea to train this squirrel even further!! Why not get him to take peanuts from my pocket or even right out of my mouth??!  Man, wouldn’t I be the coolest 7th grader around for achieving this!

The first step though was to get the squirrel to take the peanut out of my hand, which after another 30 minutes at least, he was finally doing. I was soooo excited!! Now I will get him to run up my leg! One step closer to that pocket, I’m thinking!  So, about half way up my leg I guess the squirrel had a change of heart and felt that I was taking too long giving him that next peanut, so he decided to grab my hand and take a big bite out of my pinkie finger.  Let me tell you, after the amazement of the amount of blood I saw coming from my finger…I screamed so loud that not only did the whole neighborhood come rushing out at mach ten, I am pretty sure I gave myself temporary deafness for a couple of days.

After the hyperventilating and crying subsided somewhat I was able to tell my parents what had happened and off they carted me to the emergency room fearing I had rabies from this squirrel.  Luckily, the doctor reassured my parents that all I needed was a Tetanus shot.  So, off I go with my war wound all bandaged up and a newly acquired Tetanus vaccination, but really, I was only thinking about the wicked cool story I was going to tell all of my friends the next day at school!

Can we call this a happy ending to a crazy afternoon?  Depends on who you ask.  All I know, is that I never did see that squirrel again…and when I asked my grandpa where the squirrel went, all I got for an answer was that he “moved out”.