Immunization

Dshon02

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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!
 
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!
Call your family pediatrician...maybe they will space them out so you don’t have to get all 5 at once. You’ll be okay!
 
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!


You could contact your family doctor. If you get them all at the same time, just don't look when you're getting the shots.
When I went to get mine, the nurse said that the amount she was giving me was the record she's ever given anybody.😆
 
I just showed up at Emergicare and they pumped me full 😂 But FYI they don't provide polio or Hep A. I'm going to get those somewhere else.

My suggestion is to just suck it up and don't look at the needle for Pete's sake. My doctor was especially horrible; he was a nice dude and all but I swear he got a running start to stab me, AND he said "POKE!!" as he stuck that thing in my arm😂🤣 but you'll be alright
 
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:

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.
 
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