"Sqwertz" > wrote in message
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> maxine in ri > wrote:
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>> True, the bat was scalded to death, and the woman only has to deal
>> with the rather painful, I'm told, rabies treatment.
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> Rabies treatments are less painful than getting a shot full of
> lidocaine (a local anesthetic to *kill* pain). The later hurts like
> a mofo, at least where I've been getting them.

Where did you get the shot? I just had one in my shoulder (rotator cuff)
and it was lidocaine and steroid. It felt more strange than painful.