The Occupational Health Nurse is trying to kill me.
Slowly.
Insidiously.
One needlestick at time. All in the name of "keeping me healthy" and "protecting the patient population." I hate people and don't go near them and have even taken the precaution of having a career where I don't come in contact with them. But since my workspace resides in an outpatient clinic, she basically has license to do what she wants and what she wants is to kill me. (Money and doorknobs are the real problem but let's not be reasonable!)
1-I have to get a flu shot every year, like it or not. This is dumb for alot of reasons I won't enumerate, but hey, one shot a year- I'll deal. Flu is very contagious.
2-I am also required to be tested for TB EVERY YEAR! This entails having TB antigen injected under the skin on my forearm and seeing what happens. This is an outrage! TB is hard to catch. I don't like people. I treat them as if they were all plague bearers. I don't get close enough to catch the sniffles, how the fuck am I gonna get TB!
3-It doesn't stop there! I got a vaccination for pertussis. Whooping cough. Are you kidding me?!?! Whooping cough? "Yes, whooping cough. It's a terrible disease. You can break a rib or pop your eye out." Fucking hell, whatever.
4-I'm not finished. Second measles vaccination in two years. WTF?! Lady, if you don't have enough to do, take your ass to Africa. Those people need some vaccinations. I'm fine. All these vaccinations are probably gonna give me cancer. Of coarse, that's her plan.
One day. Four bandaids. Four welts. One very sore arm. Thanks.
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Olga says: While we're on the topic of shots, guess what I have? The flu. Do you remember walking over to the PHS building with me and watching me sign paperwork to deny the shot? Karma has it that this is what I get for it. Of course, I can't be sure I wouldn't have gotten this if I had taken it but I've been getting sicker by the days since I left work on Wednesday. F*&(*!!!!
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