ppffffbbbttt. I was in the middle of uploading pictures. NOW I go to bed.

I'm not especially needle squeamish, which is good because I got to the point where I could do my twice daily IM injections to myself. Not well and it was agonizing to watch because I didn't really believe in the jab and I would insert the needle at what can only be described as a incredibly painfully slow rate.

I think pregnancy (and not even my crazy pregnancy) would force most people to deal with their needle squeamishness.

I think it will soon be time for me to deal with my random holes in the body squeamishness and get trained on Grace's trache care and her G-tube care so that we can take her out at some point.

I so know who to call when and if we decide to do any home improvement around here.

Advice is free. However, now I has no brane. It is possible that home improvement might lead to leaking IQ points. Or is that just being tired?

Kat wouldn't let me administer her IM meds. I'd totally have been fast and gentle.

Tonight is another insomnia night, I fear. Melatonin ain't it.

I feared your obviously glee, ita, at the idea of sticking me.

Man. I hated those shots.

I may have all kinds of physical woes, but small veins aren't one of them.

Unfortunately, haven't passed the blood iron test for donation for a couple years now. But then I find the finger-poke for the drop of blood to be more traumatic than the phlebotomy itself.

One way to get through needle-sticks is to bite down on a finger -- I find that the mild pain distracts one wonderfully or possibly sets up some feedback to confuse the brain's pain receptors. It's too bad you can't do that for novacaine injections at the dentist's.

It's too bad you can't do that for novacaine injections at the dentist's.

I dig my fingernails into myself.

Timelies all!

Needles don't bother me, as long as the person with the needle is competent.

Interesting that people mention tattoos - my lizard brain doesn't recognize those as needles, because the physical sensation is so different.

I'm mostly over my needlephobia these days, but I obviously still project enough tension that nurses always ask "Are you afraid of needles?" Dude, if I am, do you really think stopping to talk about it while you've already tied off the vein and raised the syringe is going to help? Just fucking stab me already!!

The one time I had to get Novocaine injections at the dentist, they gave me nitrous first. I think they could have pulled out all 4 teeth with no anesthetic at all and I wouldn't have cared.

In Things That Make Me Hate Humans news, I had to throw away an empty 40 and a handful of cigarette butts in the playground this morning.

I have a textbook-perfect reaction to Nitrous Oxide, and if I could only get dentists around here to use it, I'd never have another Novacaine injection.