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Subject: Re: As A Kid, How Long From When You Were Told You Were Getting A Shot Did You Get It? Author: Bob A [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] Date Posted: Monday, December 11, 2017, 12:47: pm In reply to: Tim 's message, "As A Kid, How Long From When You Were Told You Were Getting A Shot Did You Get It?" on Thursday, July 18, 2013, 03:25: am Depending on whether I was sick or going for a physical it could be hours or days. If I was going to the doctor, I always worried about getting a shot. It didn’t always happen but I always worried about it. Physicals were usually in summertime and mom laid out school clothes for me to wear. Sometimes the nurse told my mom right up front that I needed shots and for me to get undressed and she would give me the shots. So I took off my clothes and sat there naked waiting for the nurse. It seemed an eternity, but was probably 10-15 minutes. Then I had lay on my tummy and get one or two shots in my butt. Then I sat there waiting for the doctor. If I was sick, the doctor always examined me first and then said whether I needed a shot. Then I had to wait for the nurse again thinking about how mych it was going to hurt. [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]

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[> [> Subject: Re: As A Kid, How Long From When You Were Told You Were Getting A Shot Did You Get It? Author: Lexie [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: Saturday, December 16, 2017, 09:38: am Agreed - growing up our doctor's appointments would be written on the calendar, so as soon as I saw it, I would be worrying about if that meant I would have to get a shot. That part was days and sometimes even weeks of fretting nervously. Then came the actual appointment and the endless torture of seeing if I had to get a shot, and how many. If I did have to get one/some, they would be the last part of the appointment, so I would spend the entire appointment nervous and feeling sick to my stomach thinking of where they were going to give me the shot and how bad it was going to hurt. It felt like an eternity, but was probably only 15-20 minutes. The worst part was watching my siblings getting their shots and knowing that it would be me getting it next. [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> [> [> Subject: Re: As A Kid, How Long From When You Were Told You Were Getting A Shot Did You Get It? Author: Nick (polio shot) [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: Saturday, December 16, 2017, 05:58: pm The first time I went to the doctor knowing it was for an injection was when there was a problem with the oral vaccine and all school children had to get polio shots. My adolescent girlfriend and I were both afraid of where we would get them, regarding injections in the arm to be a rite of passage. She was a year older than I and got hers first, in the arm, but then frightened me by saying that her cousin of exactly my age got his in the bottom. As that was where I normally got injections, I feared that getting mine in the bottom would make me appear childish compared to my girlfriend. I wasn't afraid of the shot itself; just where I would get it. [ Post a Reply to This Message ]