I should know better and actually I do but that does not stop me when it comes to needles. Yesterday I had to get a flu shot. No big deal to normal people but as we all know when it comes to any sort of needle I am the biggest baby in the world. Actually they are probably braver than me. It amazes me that I did every other day injections for years, but that was the only Disease Modifying Therapy(DMT) available back then so I took it. As I have said “YOU” may really not like the therapy but 20 plus years later I am still walking up stairs and am in reasonable condition I feel for somebody of my age, fifty in case “YOU” forgot.
Anyway back to my flu shot. Ha ha as everybody knows that it is no big deal. I guarantee my needle phobia was a bigger deal than the needle. It does seem that our phobias are frequently a much bigger deal than the actual event. Phobia is from the Greek word meaning an irrational fear of. So needle phobia is an irrational fear of needles not a word but everybody knows what I mean. Irrational fear, not quite based in fact, just a fear. I completely understand fear of getting Magnetic Resonance Images (MRI), those tubes are dark and noisey. I do not have a fear of them I just move to much, so I take a valium and sleep through it. I do not like to walk into the ice hockey arena so I take in my motorised scooter. I will never have a fear of using them because it is so normal for me. It is quite funny I ride my scooter in, park in my seat then get up and walk around the seats in the arena and up the five flights of stairs. Never down, eyesight kind of suggests that is not a good idea.
So my fears are irrational, I understand that. I can make sense of them and work around them. My goal is always to keep moving forward on my ms path so I work around problems. “YOU” might like to do that as well. As I have said this is a very Doable illness and all the tools that “YOU” may need are there and available. It just might take a little creative thinking to get what “YOU” want and “YOU” are up for that aren’t “YOU”? Last time I noticed your name was on the list of highly capable ms managers, near the top come to think about it.
There is never a reason for “YOU” not to live your best life, with ms. Be content and be strong, “YOU CAN DO” this illness. Your fear might be as irrational as mine.
Royce
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Great Post Royce, enjoyed and can relate 👍. I have my AFO and hobble so people stair at me when I’m doing the stairs in a stadium, but who cares, not me. I go to have fun and I am sure that many who see me hobble up using the hand rail can admire that I do this. Carry my cane and my butt pad, probably quite a site to watch 😂. Like you say “enjoy your life best you can”. 👍🙏😉. Ken 🐾🐾
That is why I let others go first when it comes to stairs.🤣
Actually, I can't stand the feeling of being rushed or holding everybody up with people behind me.I never thought I'd ever have to think about that kind of stuff.
I used to take a few stairs at a time going up and have jumped from the top to get down faster.🤣 I don't recommend doing that last one unless you're wearing a spring on your arse.
I, too, have always been afraid of needles. Had to work to get myself to self-inject everyday, and then every other day, for about 15 years. I still get very nervous with flu shots and other vaccines. Makes no sense!!!
First of all...yay for you for getting your flu shot! Secondly, so true about addressing your fears. I have developed an unreasonable fear of large crowds in noisy venues....think football stadiums and dance competitions. Because of this unrational fear, I’ve allowed myself to miss marching band competitions, which my son (high school band director) designed and directed, and dance competitions in which my granddaughter performed winning solos. When I DO force myself to go...once I get there and settled down I wonder what in the world I was so fearful of.
Sorry, you had to go through that trauma. My daughter, at 45 is still terrified of needles. I think it goes back to when she was 2, she fell, hit her head on a window pane & cut her head open just above her eye. At the ER they wouldn't let me back there with her, took her blanket from her & put her in a straight jacket to sew it up. They finally had to let me be with her to calm her down. They stuck the novocaine needle right in the open cut, so I'm sure that was what did it. I was furious! Let's say they were glad to see us go. She still doesn't trust doctors either.
do not mention this to she who must be obeyed she will start making me do it every year now, I think that adventure might scare anybody and reasonably so
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