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Nick (fearing where I would get them)
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Date Posted: Tuesday, June 24, 2014, 06:21: pm
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Shot Nurse
's message, "School Shots" on Tuesday, June 24, 2014, 01:15: pm
During my school years my greatest fear when going to the doctor was an injection; not so much the shot itself as how (where) I would get it. Having grown up in the era of penicillin shots, I apprehensively anticipated any illness resulting in me bending across the receptionist's lap for the painful humiliation of her watching me get one in the bare bottom.
When going for a routine medical examination before the start of the new school year, therefore, I thought that not being ill I had nothing to fear and the initial ordeal didn't bother me at all. After I the examination was over, however, I was horrified by the dread instruction to pull down my pants and bend over the receptionist's lap for a booster shot. I tried to argue that I didn't need a shot because I wasn't ill, but to no avail. The embarrassment of the girl watching was worse than the injection because, unlike penicillin shots, it just felt like a pinprick but afterwards I couldn't sit on the tender cheek for several days.
While waiting with the receptionist on subsequent routine visits to the doctor she sometimes voiced the hope that I wouldn't need a shot but I always did and I often think she really hoped the opposite because she seemed to enjoy witnessing my posterior punctures (always smiling before and after I went across her lap).
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