blast from the past

I was reviewing for microscopy at starbucks and came across the chapter in the epithelium and how medication sometimes needed to be injected in. I can't help but reminisce. I was in and out the pediatrics most of my childhood years. you can say that its been the most exciting part of my childhood years. I remembered as a kid, the nurse used to tell me it won't hurt alot, just a like a little mosquito bite before giving me an injection. I trusted her and you know what? she lied! It hurt really bad! Fortunately the pain didn't last long. It didn't last.

I wondered, was the nurse lying in order to prevent the trauma before the shot or she was just easing me through the fact that, "why make a big fuss and worry when the pain is going to be quick and short-lived?" I wonder if she had told me that the shot was going to be very painful, it will scar me to life and perceive getting an injection will be forever be painful.

I somehow relate this one moment in my life to me taking up medicine. Yes, it is hard and very painful! but it is short-lived. I will not last long! Have the medical professors scared us for life by saying its going to be tough and hard to pass through medicine? Will we look back and say I would never want to go through that again? or will we say to ourselves, we were such babies, i wonder why i had such a hard time in the first place?

no mater what the outcome is, we all have been injected, we all feel the pain but the pain IS going away and like that injection I had when I was a child, it was very painful but it was necessary! =)