Hello everyone!
With getting started early on deadlines, I have a concern with the immunization part. How did you guys set things and get all the shots done? Did you call the urgent care to make appointments and so forth? Also, shots are one of my weaknesses. How did people who don't like shots like myself, get over them when they had to take like 5 of them from the Academy. Thank you so much for the help and take care!
There is a quote I’ve been looking for that might help WRT your aversion to shots, and here it is:
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Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear.” ― Franklin D. Roosevelt
You have something important to go and do, and this is part of it. It is one moment of discomfort.
Keep breathing deeply and mindfully throughout, find something to look at and focus on it, pull a mental picture into your mind that calms you. I have a memory of a perfect day on our sailboat many years ago. Perfect temp, gorgeous sky, salt taste in the air, soft winds on bare skin, the sound of ocean water susurrating along the hull as the boat knifed through the water, a feeling of peace and contentment. I call that up and try to remember with all 5 senses when I’m having blood drawn. I have no problem with blood on other people, dogs, patching up cuts, but I am not fond of seeing my own blood going into a tube. So, I tell the nurse or tech exactly that, out loud, (which actually helps, to say that) “I don’t like seeing my own blood, but I won’t faint or flinch, and I have to look away and concentrate on something else.” I had a bad experience with a blood draw many years ago, and my body hasn’t forgotten.
There will be many occasions in your military life where you will be taken out of your comfort zone: peeing into a cup in front of an observer for urinalysis, jumping out of high places, survival training, learning the difference between hurting and being injured, and dozens more. You just do it, power up your will and get through it.