It’s pretty uncommon to not get a successful response, but that’s my luck. It stinks too if only for the fact the clinic doing the discounted shots is a 6 hour round trip. Each shot is typically $600-800 and not covered by insurance, but going out there gets them for $100 each, do on still saving a ton, but 6 hours for a >5 minute thing is still crazy from a time perspective.

Now I have to wait about a month to take another blood test to see if this did the trick. The people administering the shots were very surprised it didn’t take for me and said to call them if this one doesn’t do the trick. The test only tells you if you have <0.1, >0.1, or >0.5 units of detected antibodies, and I was >0.1, so no idea how close I was or not before this extra booster.

Most people are good for life once they reach the 0.5, but we still need to be tested every 2 years just to be safe. If we get bit, we can still get rabies, and need to get the post-bite shot series, and I hear we will still feel really sick, we just shouldn’t have to worry about dying.

I subbed to /animals, and will try to remember to find some stuff to share there. I’m subbed to probably at least 200 rescues around the world to get my owl stuff, so I get tons of other cute and beautiful animals too. I’ve been liking the pangolins lately and all the baby woodpeckers of various species. Also a huge fan of vultures, and all the other birds of prey.

Keep me in the loop, I’ve seen some posts about people getting more collectively active to revive some idle communities and am all for it. I’ve been having a crappy year with some getting old type medical things and then all my prep for our open house next weekend, so I’m hoping I’ll be having a more chill schedule again shortly so I can maybe lend you all a hand.