The doctor I saw said that if you break a glass in your kitchen and cut yourself, that would be a 10 year booster shot...I never would have thought about that. I always thought of cutting yourself on rusty metal as a reason to get a tetanus booster. In fact I told him, "I know it wasn't a rusty saw, it's brand new." I think I was trying to get by without the shot, but at that point I'd already been stuck several times with the lidocaine and had the stitches, so what's one more stick?

Anyhow, that's when he told me about "for outdoor things, the booster is 5 years". He also told me that everything that grows in this state is considered to be a possible source of tetanus. Since I had wee bits of bark in the wound... <img src="/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />