I am a total pansy about blood draws and needles in general. Personally, I think it's about evolution and avoidable pain. If something painful happens, I am great. I think it is an aversion to sitting still and letting someone else put something sharp in my veins and puncturing me. I am against that.
Avoiding avoidable pain is a good thing, and evolution rewards you for it. Your ancestors lived longer because of it.
In a completely different vein, I'm not going to be able to make the housewarming. :( I was hoping to, but I'll be working at the Michigan Ren Fair that weekend as a favor to a friend. (Actually, I'm working almost the entire season as this favor.)
I told my third grade teacher that I was sick. (That's the same year I realized that sick kids get to go home early.) Realizing that I had been "sick" too many times lately, she told me to just sit still and join the rest of the group in our reading circle.
So I threw up on her.
Apparently, some days I really *was* sick. She never doubted me again.
In the doc's office a coupe years ago I was having skin tags removed. Had a similar reaction, and the doc called the ambulance. Ended up with 12 hrs of cardiac observation in the hospital.
Needles don't squick me at all - I watched the doc give me stitches once. But forget to eat breakfast the morning of the blood drive and *wooee* do those Red Cross folks move fast! All I said was, "Hey, I see little black dots . . ."
Had something like that happen once when I was getting some boosters back in high school; five minutes after the shots I was standing next to my dad at the front desk when these bright spots just sort of washed over my eyes and my head dropped onto the counter. I didn't actually faint, but it was close.
Shot shock. It happens sometimes, or so I was told.
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In a completely different vein, I'm not going to be able to make the housewarming. :( I was hoping to, but I'll be working at the Michigan Ren Fair that weekend as a favor to a friend. (Actually, I'm working almost the entire season as this favor.)
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So I threw up on her.
Apparently, some days I really *was* sick. She never doubted me again.
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In the doc's office a coupe years ago I was having skin tags removed. Had a similar reaction, and the doc called the ambulance. Ended up with 12 hrs of cardiac observation in the hospital.
Shock can kill you. No joke.
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Shot shock. It happens sometimes, or so I was told.
(offers stiff coffee)
-BJ
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