Haha!!! I know how you feel - I'be been bit right down to the bone by a rat before, and it hurts like nothing you'd believe if you haven't been bitten by a rat before!!!

The sympathy is there, it was all I could do not to inadvertantly toss it across the room at the time out of sheer "Get off my hand you devil animal" instict (it wasn't my rat, it was when I worked at the vets).