Congratulations on the first vaxjab!

Oh PC it wasn't THAT bad. And just think... When you get home you can have cookies

Very Good News

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Trypanophobia is no joke and I suffer from it myself, so I won't lie, I sympathise with her and would love to offer her solace. Needles are evil. For lots of people, it's not so much the pain that frightens them but the concept of having a nasty object inside your body. The prick merely alerts your brain of when the needle is inside you which triggers the fear.

This. Foreign objects that invade your body, so the tension grows and so does the pain. Rinse and repeat.

I suffered the condition for decades, till my mother (nurse) taught me to inject myself my medicine for kidney stones effects (pain, arcades)
RL events forced me to learn to inject subcutaneous (mom and an aunt had extensive surgeries)
The only one I don't master is in the vein.

Be fair, those forwt shots are painful. Also that lump in your shoulder hurts like a bitch. T w T

Hmm.. I must have gotten lucky then. To me that was but a mild irritant for a day or two. What was worse for me was the vertigo and chills towards the evenings. Heck, I'm a bear. I got a pelt for a reason. I'm not supposed to feel like an ice cube. Fortunately that too was over after about 3-4 days.

I don't like needles either - which is why I am not complaining about having gotten the vaccine that only needs one shot - albeit at potentially worse side-effects.

Hope that stuff doesn't knock you flat. For many those side-effects are no joke.

Hi Ookami, I've got to say, all your artwork ends up being really adorable, keep up the really good work ❤

Awww just want to Huggle PC and give her cookies and ice cream to comfort her

Which of you went out of action for a few days?

I just got my second stabbing today....... the pain hasn't hit yet.

Thank you for getting the vaccine.... The world would be a darker place without your adorable artwork. Not to go to a dark place or anything.

Oh, but congratulations! And well done braving the jab!

I got my first shot of the vaccine yesterday, and I'm scared of needles. I coped with it by closing my eyes and getting it done. *Hugs*

Awesome, and great artwork. Just look out for the 24-48 hour period, that's usually when it's worst, whether it be just a really sore arm or feel a bit under the weather. Either way, hope you get through it well!

The sooner Pussy Cat gets her jabs, the sooner she can go about getting more cookies without fear of getting sick.

Congrats on the Vax!!

I always thought PC was stronger than me, but uh here's one place I've definitely won :-P

Congrats mate.
Hope y'all stay healthy and react well to the shot.

Yeah. I used to faint many times whenever I had a needle. It took me years and years to find a coping mechanism that worked for me. That's to sit in the chair and ask them to put on the seatbelt or swing that table arm in front of me. Then I look away and scrunch my eyes closed. Then I sing to myself an earworm song like Conjunction Junction. Once the jab is done, keeping my eyes closed, some deep breathing to relax.

Needles SUCK. No argument there.
But at least we are all one step closer to living again.
Congrats on the jab!

Once I didn't cry out taking a booster and when my grandma said how proud she was I stopped being bothered by needles. However I can't watch my blood drawn or it will give me quite nausea. When I was poked by the vaccine needle it didn't even feel like the usual bee sting.