Thread: Painful day

Serves you right for being such a sook, Spud. We take them in the upper arm.
Tetnus shots are specially designed to not hurt, until you walk out of the front door.

Hence the name tet-anus !!

Peter

Originally Posted by spudfan

I remember in the late seventies I was working on a building site and I walked on a nail which went into my foot. So I was taken to the nearest hospital for a tetanus shot. When getting the tetanus shot, I was told "Don't tense up", but I did. The needle broke and the tip lodged in my lower regions. It was a painful day.

Did you tip the doctor, or could you keep the tip?

Had a 13 mile cycle home after all of that!!!

As a young man, many years ago; I had an encounter with a dubious lady which found me having to report to the doctor every morning for a tetanus shot in the rear end; a painful experience in more ways than one. As if that wern't enough, the federal police were aroused by the doctors seven medicare claims and decided to investigate the situation. Next thing, as I returned home from work, the feds were standing out the front with my father, waiting for my account. Well, my father was more than a little interested with his ear tuned into the conversation. I squirmed about a fair bit, trying to protect his vergin ears. Eventually, dad concluded by saying, Your not a man until you've had it three times. Talk about painful experiences.

Try this, when we where in Tassie with our very very young boys we went fishing. Mario got out his fly rod and I was up the embankment with the boys. Mario went down to the water and with his casing with the fly rod the line goes way back to get the line out. Any way when Mario was bring it back to the water the hook hit the side of my head and went in to my temple, he tried to get it out but he couldn't. So off to a medical clinic, saw the lady at the desk and said we need to see a doctor, as I had a hook in me. She look at my hands thinking it was there until Mario told her that it was in my temple. The doctor tried cutting the hook to pull it through his cutter didnt work so he had to push the hook through and out. I did have injection in my head to deaden the area a bit and that hurt. And pushing the hook out hurt as well. Also I had a tetanus to go along with all. So Mario go his fly hook which he made back in one piece. We went back to fishing where we left some friends and one said to Mario you had already hooked her in marriage you didn't need to do it again LOL. These are the wonderful memories which I hold. Heather.

Funny how the odd little things can bring back happy memories, hopefully there are many more in there. Unfortunately my experience is not one of those. You see the nurse in question who was dealing with me was a little on the "brusque" side. The instruction to "don't tense up", was not said in a Florence Nightingale soothing, comforting tone but rather like a four star general initiating a ballistic missile launch. I'd seen some rough looking characters on the building site but she put them all in the shade. Maybe she was not a nurse at all but a member of security. Can't say I blame them if she was as I was sort of disreputable looking at the time.

When I was a lad I was crossing a "plank" over a creek.
Someone had installed man-traps - I assume a local who didnt like teens hanging around the area.

Roofing nails up through the boards

Straight through the ball of my right foot, and up through the top of the sneaker


Not a happy day - and yes, a Tet Shot in the ARM