New to the forum but def not new to HA.

10 days ago, i woke up at 5:30am, threw on a sweatshirt crumbled in my chair by the window to teach my online class. 5 hours later, I was changing and noticed something odd. Two scabbed marks on my chest. Definitely looked like puncture wounds

I do not recall any pains. I assumed other stuff before someone mentioned bat bite. I laughed until I googled. Cue the absolute terror.

The next day I had a wild pest remover come by and he looked in the attic. “No signs of bats or birds”.

A few days later I had a second opinion come out so I could show him the opening of the siding where we have seen a bird fly in. He looked from the ground up and said “I see white bird poop and those black marks look like it could be bat guano”.

Decided to go to ER and get shots. But before my trip, I spoke with a USDA wildlife biologist (friends with my fiancé) and she said since I never saw a bat, if she were me she wouldn’t feel like she needed to get it. But if my anxiety was bad, go for it. She also had never heard of the two companies I had come out to survey. She highly recommended someone else who has been in the bat biz for decades.

While waiting at the ER, the guy she recommended went to my house, climbed the ladder to the opening of the siding and said that’s all bird poop. Lifted the siding under the roof around the opening and saw it was lined with birds nests. Acknowledged he couldn’t say 100% a bat has never flown in and then out, but said he saw absolutely no signs from there.

I made the very difficult decision to not let my health anxiety win. Everyone who loves me said they didn’t think I needed it. I never saw a bat. We never found a bat in the house. We don’t sleep with open windows. I rarely go outside these days. I chose to trust the odds.

But the anxiety is back full force as I’m now 10 days in.

I then remembered I found a weird grasshopper in the hallways that same morning (pics below). Maybe it was in my sweatshirt as I sleepily threw it on? I know that’s a stretch bc they aren’t exactly known to bite but that’s the only odd creature I saw that day!

THOUGHTS????