Tayla Solly on her worst first date which left her in hospital in excruciating pain

An Aussie woman has revealed her freak encounter with a bat while on her first daye.

Don’t f*** with bats.

A Gold Coast woman has suffered through what could be considered the most epically unfortunate first date, and a flying mammal is to blame.

Tayla Solly had just enjoyed some hot wings and ribs at The Sporting Globe in Robina, when she and her beau decided to move the date to a new venue.

Unfortunately, as they took a U-turn at the roundabout on Laver and Easthill Drive, winged disaster struck.

A fruit bat suddenly flew straight through the driver’s window, landing in Tayla’s lap on the passenger side.

“My natural reaction was to just get the (expletive) out, so I grabbed it. Oh my Lord, this thing didn’t just bite … it LATCHED on to my finger,” she posted on social media.

“So I banged it off and once the bat was out, we laughed and decided Robina hospital was the place to go instead of ripping up the D-Floor.”

A wise decision, given that our bats can carry the rare but deadly rabies-related Australian Bat Lyssavirus.

Tayla Solly on her worst first date which left her in hospital in excruciating pain

With her hands covered in blood, Tayla and her date proceeded to wait at the hospital for hours.

She asked to clean her finger, feeling slightly unnerved that potential rabies could be festering in the wound, but was told to wait for a doctor.

At 1am, she was given permission to have her date drive her to her own car so he could go home and she could continue to wait. And kudos to this young man for hanging around in a hospital waiting room for so long on a first date … that’s a big green flag.

But for Tayla, her tale took a dark turn from here.

“At 2am this lovely nurse asks if I would like a bed, so I get a bed. I finally nap for 30 minutes and am woken up saying the vaccines are good to go,” she said.

“The vaccinations: When I say this is the most pain I have ever been in, even the doctors said it’s borderline inhumane. I mean it was the worst, I thought I was being tortured.

“First were two jabs into my arm, one in each. There was a third needle though, they had to administer as much of this fluid (immunoglobulin) as possible around the bite. Now my fingers are small and this was a large needle with a lot of liquid.

“I’m hysterical as this extremely painful injection is happening, they get half the fluid into the finger and the rest goes to the top of the arm. I would rather have had my finger cut off.”

She was finally sent to her northern NSW home at 5am, but poor Tayla’s tale did not end there.

“On my way home, I am itchy to the point of almost ripping my skin off, I can’t sit still while driving so I present at Tweed Hospital. I’m still having a reaction, not bad enough to get steroids, but bad enough for Public Health to be advised and to eat a lot more antihistamines.

“Going forward, I need three more shots, but we don’t know what shots I’m allergic to so when I’m given the vaccine shots, adrenaline and whatever else will need to be available. They do not know if the allergy will get worse with more exposure, but I also don’t have a choice on getting them as I’m still at risk.

“Point of my story is, bats do fly low and they will bite. It was all funny until it wasn’t.”

Tayla Solly on her worst first date which left her in hospital in excruciating pain

As for that first date?

Well, a second one is being planned … although Tayla said she wasn’t sure whether she ever wanted to leave her house again.

And, unfortunately, experts warn that when it comes to bats, you just never know.

Bats Queensland president Rhiannon Traish-Walker stressed that bats were not aggressive creatures but something perhaps even worse … goofy and accident-prone.

“Bats are herbivores, they eat nectar and fruit and are big scaredy cats … but they are also goofy and accident prone, they panic and fly around and knock into people.

“Do not touch bats. This season we’re especially concerned as bats have been stricken by a mystery paralysis and are being found stranded and scared in people’s backyards. Don’t touch them, just call us.

“It’s an extremely small chance that they carry rabies lyssavirus, but it is a real chance. And that’s an almost 100 per cent mortality rate. So if you get scratched or bitten, you have to go through that process which is not fun.”

So don’t f*** with bats.

And Tayla, keep us posted as to whether it was love at first bite. Or first bat.

Originally published as Tayla Solly on her worst first date which left her in hospital in excruciating pain