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 I wear my bandages proudly

    No, I did not fall and hurt myself.  Although that is always a possibility.

    I got flu shot today and a Covid shot.

    A wonderful pharmacist gave them to me, but hey did sting a little.  

    I don't like shots.  Or blood draws.  Or needles.  A friend is going to get an injection in their eye and every time I think about that I cringe.

    I have always been like that.

    Years ago, when I was a teen, I went to a dentist for a bad wisdom tooth.

    Now, I thought he was just going to look at it and set up an extraction date.

    The office was maybe on the fifth floor  in a tall building on Lawrence  by the L tracks. (That's in Chicago for those of you who don't know.)

    I remember sitting  in a chair, the nurse coming in, my mouth being jabbed and then the tracks of the L came up to my face, turned 360 degrees and the room turned white.

    They moved me to a cot in another room until I was "normal" again.

    And yes, they took out the tooth and sent me on my way.  I did not have enough money for the bus, so I walked home, a wad of bloody cotton stuck in my mouth. It was at least 100 degrees out and I thought I was going to die.

    I had to have a blood test before we got married and I fainted.  

    I got woozy when I had a blood test at the hospital, so for years they put me on a cot.

    I am better now, but I still don't like shots or needles.

    But I have improved.

    I do not faint at blood draws.  I do not faint, or scream, when getting shots.

    But I don't enjoy it either.

    Plus thing is:  my arms don't hurt.

    It pays to have a pharmacist as a daughter.

Peace and Love