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]

Thanks! I'm past the fiddle-with-it stage, as I can inject Duchess just fine. (I sure couldn't the first time I tried! I was way too careful and way too slow and getting a bit woozy, and Duchess decided ENOUGH OF THIS and trotted off down the hallway... with the syringe flopping off her shoulder! Doh!) But probably the next thing I'd need to do is learn to stick myself.