For cheap entertainment, you may want to stop reading and make up your own journal entry for that title.

Someone should probably tell my doctor's nurse that "I think I hit your bone" is not the best thing to say while you have a needle in somebody's arm. There's the gross-out factor... and the implied insult that I don't have enough muscle on my arm to stick a needle in. I swear I've been working out... and it was a big needle ;)

Actually, it didn't hurt that bad. I made these crazy faces to the amusement of the nurse and med student, but none of the shots was really painful. Hep A was the worst. It's in an orange syringe with a fairly good-sized needle. I began worrying when the nurse was going to let the med student give it, but she refused. "No... I'll let you do the orange one," she said. Then when the nurse pulled the cover off the needle, the student said "You might want to close your eyes for this one." I guess bedside manner is next semester.

By the time it was over, I had Hepatitis A and B, Meningitis, and Pneumonia. Well, I didn't actually have them... although wouldn't that be a trip... "Nurse! Come look at this guy... you won't believe what this poor bastard's got!"

The doctor didn't have Yellow Fever, Typhoid, or Japanese Encephalitis in the office so I'll get those when I go back for rounds two and three of the Hepatitis twins.|