(August 25, 2017 at 11:38 pm)KevinM1 Wrote: Shots in the arm. Had so many hospital visits and procedures as an infant-to-child that I have a learned response/association that's pure terror.
I grew up dirt poor. If we ever managed to make it to the doctor, it was because we were so sick that it was life-threatening. As a result, when I go to see the doctor, even when I'm not sick, I have "white-coat hypertension". The nurses have to take me to a room and wait for me to calm down, then take my blood pressure. If I take it at home, it's always OK, but when I go to the doctor, I expect the worst, and my blood pressure shows it.
If you get to thinking you’re a person of some influence, try ordering somebody else’s dog around.
