I still remember the jet gun thing the military used for injections. I got a bunch of shots when I went to Turkey. I hated those things, but not as much as one of the guys that flinched when he was getting a shot. The highly-pressurized liquid grazed the outside of his upper arm instead of going in. He started bleeding and they quickly put gauze and pressure on it to stop the bleeding, and then took him away.
Nothing like seeing that when you are in a line of dozens of people waiting for your own shots. Fortunately they stopped using that in the early '90s.
Ha! I assumed they were still doing it that way. What do they do now?
Side note: I recall some in my group having issues with the shots, and me thinking they were wimpy. Now I know about adverse reactions to that crap. wish I'd been thinking more back then.
As far as I know, they are doing the shots via syringe now. The shot guns would often get splashback blood onto the gun, and it could transfer to the next person in line.
I still remember the jet gun thing the military used for injections. I got a bunch of shots when I went to Turkey. I hated those things, but not as much as one of the guys that flinched when he was getting a shot. The highly-pressurized liquid grazed the outside of his upper arm instead of going in. He started bleeding and they quickly put gauze and pressure on it to stop the bleeding, and then took him away.
Nothing like seeing that when you are in a line of dozens of people waiting for your own shots. Fortunately they stopped using that in the early '90s.
Ha! I assumed they were still doing it that way. What do they do now?
Side note: I recall some in my group having issues with the shots, and me thinking they were wimpy. Now I know about adverse reactions to that crap. wish I'd been thinking more back then.
As far as I know, they are doing the shots via syringe now. The shot guns would often get splashback blood onto the gun, and it could transfer to the next person in line.
Oh, fun…