Summary
I WILL frankly admit that I'm afraid of medical care. I trace this fear to my childhood, when, as far as I could tell, the medical profession's reaction to every physical problem I developed, including nearsightedness, was to give me a tetanus shot. Not only that, but the medical professionals would always lie about it.
"You'll hardly feel it!" they'd say, coming at me with a needle the size of a harpoon. As a child, I was more afraid of tetanus shots than, for example, Dracula. Granted, Dracula would come into your room at night and bite into your neck and suck out all your blood, but there was a positive side to this; namely, you could turn into a bat and stay out all night. Whereas I could see no pluses with the tetanus shot.See the full content of this document
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'This Won't Hurt a Bit'...Or so They Say
Of course, today I no longer have this childish phobia, because, as a mature adult, I can lie.
"I just had a tetanus shot this morning!" I can say, if the issue ever arises. "Eight of them, in fact!"But I'm still afraid of medical care....See the full content of this document
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