Pain!

[from Nov 2007]

I went this morning (at 9:00…on a Friday…ewwww) to go get the second vaccination out of the three-vaccination anti-HPV/cervical cancer thingy, and I wasn’t so worried about it. The first installation barely hurt at all, I just slightly felt the needle a bit.

So I walk into the room, the doctor gets the shot ready, we chat a little, you know, the awkward fill-the-silence chat that goes on when you don’t know someone and there’s like a thirty year age difference, and then she starts administering the shot.

PAIN! SHOOTING, SHARP, INTENSE, PAIN!

I sat there whimpering the whole time because it hurt so bad–worse than any shot I’ve ever gotten in my life–and the doctor was going “I know it hurts…it’s okay, it’ll just be a few more seconds” and finally…it was over…I had to rub it afterwards, which REALLY HURT SOME MORE but at least it stopped stinging so bad.

Then I nearly passed out and my stomach started hurting really bad, like I was going to throw up, and the doctor’s standing there going…wtf…haha I am not kidding, I almost blacked out after the shot…I don’t think it was the needle, because I usually don’t have problems with needles as long as I can’t see them going into my body, and I didn’t watch that one. I just had some sort of sudden severe reaction. Odd.

Anyway, I had to lie down for ten minutes and the doctor is running around, putting wet towels on my face and the back of my neck, etc. She was sooo sweet about it, treated me like I was her kid. I like nice people that take care of me randomly.

So that was my big adventure for the day. The end.