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You may have heard the urban legend that we swallow 10 or so spiders while sleeping during our lives. Fortunately, that is not true; most animals want nothing to do with your wide-open, snoring mouth.
This young bat, however, must not have gotten the message.
Dr. Krista Edelman had an unsettling dream, recently. In it, a mouse was trying to crawl into her mouth. The dream woke her up, but, shockingly, it seemed the mouse was really in there. Only, it was not a mouse: it was a bat!
After pulling out the bat, which flew away, and screaming for a while, Dr. Edelman and her husband eventually caught the bat. And after giving her mouth a thorough wash with soap, she and the bat went to work.
Since, as a doctor, she realized that she could have caught rabies or Covid from the bat, she headed to the hospital ER.
Dr. Edelman lives in the US state of Virginia, where she works as a gastroenterologist.
Unfortunately, her historic 100-year-old house, had some undiscovered openings to the outside world that must have been very tempting to a night creature like the bat.
Dr. Edelman details her harrowing experience in a viral video that she posted on social media.
On the fateful night, she was sleeping peacefully. However, she was having a strange dream about a cute little mouse.
“I was dreaming that there was a little mouse trying to get into my mouth,” she said.
In her dream, Dr. Edelman reached into her mouth to pull the mouse out. She could even feel the soft ball of fur between her jaws.
But then she woke up and realized that she still had something fuzzy in her mouth.
“I thought that I was still dreaming. And then I really touched the hair on its back and kind of pulled it out and looked at it,” she remembers. In her hand was a small bat.
Barely awake, Dr. Edelman freaked out. As the bat flapped away to a better, dryer hiding place, her screams woke up her husband, who finally tracked the creature down while Krista took care of their daughter.
Later, Dr. Edelman packaged the bat (See photo below.) and went off to the ER at St. Mary’s Hospital, where she works.
There, one of the doctors who examined her was Aram Landsee.
Dr. Landsee says, “To actually have a bat in the mouth, because of the possibility of her mouth’s and the bat’s mucous membranes touching, it is a pretty concerning situation”
Doctors took blood samples of the bat and sent them out for rabies analysis. Meanwhile, they gave Dr. Edelman a rabies vaccination.
Fortunately, the bat results came back negative, and her colleagues declared Dr. Edelman to be in the clear.
Overall, she came out of the experience surprisingly well. Doctors found no bite marks in her mouth, and she did not catch any diseases from the bat.
All she has to do now is get over the mental shock, and she seems to be doing fine in that department, too.
“It was kind of soft. So, it was not painful at all. It was just a little bit unsettling,” Dr. Edelman coolly and professionally recalls.
And if she ever had worries about becoming a vampire, she is not telling us.
SOURCE: oddee.com
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