Just a little prick now ...

When you become a nurse (or nurse student)  you have to understand that a significant percentage of your job will be causing someone else pain. I don’t mean it in a bad way, but let’s be honest, the job of a nurse vastly involves needles (and being a student means no experience, thus extra pain). You are going to feel just a little prick now... 

So, to make you empathize with all the suffering you will be causing your lovely patients, they make you taste some your own medicine (literally) before they let you into the program. I have never been poked and pricked so many times in my life. TB tests, blood draws, immunizations etc... My arm was so sore after the last immunization, I couldn’t move it for 2 days. A week after and I’m still in a lot of pain, not to mention the hard lump under the skin. Now, the big questions is where to get the next shots on my body. I’m not a big person so I don’t have a lot of muscle or fat. I can’t have it on my left arm as it’s all hard and lumpy and hurts a lot. I can’t get the them on my right arm because I can’t afford to not move it for a while so I need to decide where else on my body I should get the next three shots needed. I though about my buttocks. You know, the old fashion way of getting injections, but then I thought, I drive about 50 km everyday and I simply can’t have that much pain on my butt (not that driving is not a pain in the but, I just cant’t add anymore to that poor sufferer). Hips, I’m thinking next. That might work. One on each side. But wait a minute! Where do I get the third one? That is a problem. What is left? Thighs. OK, not a good idea. I need to be able to walk and if I have even a little limp I will end up with my back thrown off. Oh well, we’ll see. On shot at a time.