t'was easy enough, just wanted to make sure I was sticking the needle in the right place etc. My leg hasn't fallen off or anything, so hopefully I did okay!
The advice in the video to stretch the skin definitely helped, I bent my knee as far as I could under me, which seemed to help, and I watched the needle going in, which I always prefer to do (the nurses go mad at me "would you turn your head away?!") so I can see exactly when the needle breaks the skin and I don't flinch - a nurse told me years ago it's the patient tensing up and flitching that make a jab hurt worse than it should. IMO she's right!
I got the plasters in Dealz (aka Poundland if you're in the UK) they'd princess ones and dinosaur ones. I don't like pink so I got the dinosaur ones! 😂
Well done. Last November was my first s.i and i remember the panic before hand and the sheer relief of doing it then the worry that i had done it wrong. Give yourself a treat and congratulate yourself.
I'm pretty sure I didn't push the needle in far enough, but I was slightly worried I'd go through to the bone!! 😂 I do have good big leg muscles, so I was probably getting in a tizz for nothing!
Well done you! I have been SI weekly for about a year. I well remember my terror before the first time and then the absolute elation when I finally did it. I wanted to pull my T-shirt over my head and run around the neighbourhood like a goal scoring footballer. Not a pretty sight when you’re a 66 year old grandma. I still have the odd moment of nerves beforehand sometimes, but the benefits have been brilliant so far.
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