{"id":485,"date":"2006-03-14T18:16:24","date_gmt":"2006-03-15T02:16:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/?p=485"},"modified":"2009-05-16T22:29:34","modified_gmt":"2009-05-17T05:29:34","slug":"needles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/2006\/03\/14\/needles\/","title":{"rendered":"Needles"},"content":{"rendered":"

I need one of those “I got a blood test today!” stickers they give to little kids. (I know they exist, because I have one. Evidently I had a blood test when I was young. I wonder why I don’t remember this.)<\/p>\n

Is it just me, or is the sight of needles in your skin disturbing? I can’t look whenever one is being stuck into me. I know I’ll tense up and that will distract whoever’s poking me, possibly leading them to try and poke me again. I think it’s even worse when something is being taken out of you rather than put in.<\/p>\n

I don’t know if that classifies me as “scared of needles.” I don’t become hysterical when a needle is brought close to me. I just don’t like looking at them going into my skin. :tongue:<\/p>\n

Oh, and a final question: Why would applying pressure to the point of needle insertion prevent bruising? O_o;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I need one of those “I got a blood test today!” stickers they give to little kids. (I know they exist, because I have one. Evidently I had a blood test when I was young. I wonder why I don’t remember this.) Is it just me, or is the sight of needles in your skin […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[77],"tags":[121],"class_list":["post-485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-snippet","tag-needles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=485"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1072,"href":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485\/revisions\/1072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}