Flu shot

[cjsmith]

OW.

I barely felt the flu shot when it was administered. (It was an injection of inactivated virus, not the FluMist thing with attenuated. I suspect the tech was skilled.) But now, oh MAN does that shoulder ache. Every year I forget about this part. I'm glad I got it in my left arm. I'm mousing with my right.

She used a 25ga needle. The ones I use for Duchess, my diabetic cat, are 30ga, so I know what those look like; what I barely felt was bigger than those. Well done.

Duchess doesn't seem to mind hers a bit, but I'm still wondering if I can't develop some of that skill, that deftness used by good needle-wielders to lessen the sting. I have a great opportunity to practice, right?

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[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Yikes. Yeah, I'm usually pretty firm about requesting to have my eyes shut for the whole thing, lying down if it's going to be a bad one (blood draws often end up this way because they take longer), and that sort of thing. Once an Army specialist was told all this and pretty much ignored me. He did a blood draw, told me to move on to the next station, and I opened my eyes on three nice test tubes. I passed out right at his feet and gummed up the whole intake line until they could pull me aside. Served him right, the nitwit!