almost trypanophobic.

Had my second dose of DPT and MMR vaccines. It's been a day since I got them but still, my left arm (where the DPT vaccine has been injected) aches whenever I move it, similar to what happened when I had my first dose a month ago. It really hurts, especially on the first 10 minutes after it was injected..it's a knife-like pain and the muscle fiber/s where the needle's contents were released exhibited a pulsating feeling.

It's just too bad that needle-pricking seems to be part of our semestral routine from now on. Since we are now starting to have patients for our ward work, we are exposed to whatever diseases who knows there might be and thus, it's mandatory for us to have our immunity to the common diseases with greater encounter possibilities.

Taken when I was in first year med. My group mates forced me to volunteer
as the subject for our Physio Lab Experiment Prothrombin Time.

My blood.

As a child, I don't like medical needles.

My first encounter with a medical needle (as far as I can remember) was at a bakuna center/clinic. Me and my siblings were brought there by our parents who tricked us by saying that we'll go to a mall. It's a clever idea, for no child will be eager to come and get punctured..er, vaccinated. We were far more than disappointed when we learned what will really befall on us that day and at the very sight of syringe, we ran. We all ran...the four of us. We all ran away until we cannot run any longer. I didn't know where my sister and brothers hid at that time (and I still don't know up to this minute) but for me, it was a brief escape from peril. The 'torturers' dressed in white found me in the public comfort room..and with the waiting injection and upset parents, the rest of the story has been deleted in my memory via selective amnesia. Haha.

Today, I can tolerate medical needles, but I still don't like it.

If I do have a choice, I wouldn't let myself be pricked again..but then again, I don't.

*Trypanophobia-'needle phobia'

*DPT- combination vaccine against three infectious diseases in humans: Diphtheria, Pertussis (whooping cough) and Tetanus

*MMR- immunization shot against measles, mumps and rubella (also called German measles)