User blog comment:Derpyspaghetti/Shots/@comment-4849011-20161118003147

I read somewhere that the wife of the guy who invented the hypodermic needle was the first person to get addicted to injecting morphine (as opposed to smoking or drinking it). If that's true, then dang.

Flu shots don't bother me as much, but I generally don't like shots/needles. Here's what's odd- I'm afraid of needles, yet I'm a blood donor. What helps me is a trick my pediatrician's nurse taught me when I was a child and had to get vaccines more regularly. You have the shot-giver/needle-inserter count to three, and on three you blow like you're blowing out a million candles. The nurse sticks the needle in you while you're blowing and nine times out of ten it doesn't hurt as much. I made a card to present to nurses so I don't have to give instructions out-loud every time I give blood or have to get a shot.

As far as other fears are concerned, I have a list, but that's for another time.