[seafarer]

:p Well you just haven't been sick enough, or spent enough time in a Hospital.

Have a heart attack (like I did) and follow that up in a few months with a problematic angiogram and emergency open heart surgery. You'll think nothing of needles or IV's in your arms, back of your hands, your neck (after bypass surgery, I had one in my carotid artery - they have to flip the bed over so you are head down to remove it).

And since I take warfarin as a blood thinner (mainly because of a pulmonary embolism before the heart problems), I get my arm stuck every 6 weeks or so anyway for a protime (INR) sample.

I'm surprised they even need to stick me anymore. They should just wave the needle over my arm and the blood should just squirt out by now.

Needles are nothing - just think about a diabetic giving themself their own shots (I did my own shots of low MW heparin for a week after my PE, but that was easy). :p