Here's your dilemma. You have to have 7 injections over the course of the next month. 1 of which is repeated 3 times. How many days do you want to spread this out over? You can be a big girly wussbucket and have 7 appointments or endure needle frenzy and guarantee to feel something approaching a combination of dead arms and the sensation of pre-"whitey" you get when you're brain is figuring out whether passing out makes more sense then staying conscious.
On the basis of wanting as much pain out of the way as possible but that I have no personal interest in how bad it's possible to feee - I went for
- Rabies because it sounds really painful
- Hepatitis B because it's repeated
- Tetanus because, as my sister reminds me often, I passed out after having one of these after a bike crash when I was 16.
Then I have 2 more Hep B's, a Hep A and Typhoid to go but at least the next ones won't involve both arms getting stabbed. I think I'll give it an hour of so before I contemplate hitting the gym as I want my head to settle down a tad. It reminds of the time I had my Japanese Encephalitis jabs when I was living in Tokyo. The doctor I was booked in to see spoke almost no English. I spoke almost no Japanese. All I remember is he pulled out a seemingly gigantic needle and kept muttering something about "complications" over and over again. He was right though - I felt godawful after those jabs. Strike one for either medical science or hypochondria.
And whilst I've got your sympathy I guess I should plug http://justgiving.com/andz-mera again and also say a big thank you to the kind folks at Google where I work for their generosity in donating over the last few days. Thanks to them I'm now up to 38% of my (somewhat ambitious) target.
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