Quick Question

Does anyone know if it's possible to catch tetanus without breaking the skin?

Production brought back a mess of rusty antique horseshoes, nails still in them, from Tombstone, Arizona. Not from a shop or anything, because that would cost money. These came out of a vacant lot inhabited by meth-mouthed transients.

They gave one to me as a souvenir. One of the cruddy, dull nails stuck my thumb without breaking the skin. Now my thumb is stiff, achy, and tingling near where the nail jabbed me.

Probably nothing to worry about, right?

hy·po·chon·dri·a
n.
1. The persistent conviction that one is or is likely to become ill, often involving symptoms when illness is neither present nor likely, and persisting despite reassurance and medical evidence to the contrary. Also called hypochondriasis.

2. Sound familiar, Matthew?