In the past 48 hours I've spent about 14 hours in a hospital emergency room

[Bayard]

10. I had a bad cat bite one time

I was still in Calif, and my vet had come to check out something with the cat, I think for an infected tooth. Klaus turned around and nailed me while I was holding him for the exam. Vet freaked out because it was bleeding so badly, and disinfected it like crazy, and bandaged. I still ended up in the ER a few days later on IV antibiotics.

Hospitals are not the most sanitary places. I was in for an emergency appendectomy a few years ago, and ended up with a bad staph infection. Now, anytime I need some procedure (like carpal tunnel surgery), I have to have a course of antibiotics first because staph is always waiting for a chance to pop back up once you've had it.

You have my sympathies.