{"id":1297,"date":"2007-11-16T06:35:17","date_gmt":"2007-11-16T11:35:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/16\/phobias\/"},"modified":"2007-11-16T06:35:17","modified_gmt":"2007-11-16T11:35:17","slug":"phobias","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/16\/phobias\/","title":{"rendered":"phobias"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Ages and ages ago, I blogged about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/2005\/06\/06\/i-have-a-confession-to-make\/\">my intense phobia of bug pictures<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>But watch me flip a page in a book and come across a photograph of an insect? and you&rsquo;re next watching me run from the room trying not to vomit. Even when I was a little kid, and I got my first world book encyclopedia, I&rsquo;d come across a photograph of an ant or a fly, and I had to turn my head and oh-so-gently flip the page over by the very corner, so that I wasn&rsquo;t even <em>touching<\/em> the picture of the bug.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I also, not quite so strangely, <em>really<\/em> don&#8217;t like needles.&nbsp; So, you can imagine what my morning was like yesterday, when I went for a physical for the first time in god knows how long, and discovered that, not only would I need to get five (<em>five!<\/em>) different needles stuck in me (blood test, TB test, tetantus shot (since it&#8217;s been 11 years since my last one) and, because I&#8217;m going to India in January, both a polio booster and a <em>typhoid shot!<\/em>), and perhaps a few more depending on whether the MMR and hepatitis antibodies show up in my blood test (I vaguely remember being required to get the hep b vaccine when I went to law school, but I can&#8217;t remember if I got all the boosters), it was the artwork in the exam room that <em>really<\/em> freaked me out.<\/p>\n<p>You see, my new doctor (who is great), has these (theoretically interesting) framed scientific journal-like drawings of, yep, <em>insects<\/em>, on the walls of the exam room that I was in.&nbsp; I spent most of the appointment staring at the EKG machine, and I&#8217;m sure the nurse thought I was weird.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Only me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ages and ages ago, I blogged about my intense phobia of bug pictures: But watch me flip a page in a book and come across a photograph of an insect? and you&rsquo;re next watching me run from the room trying not to vomit. Even when I was a little kid, and I got my first [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[35],"class_list":["post-1297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-miscellaney"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s6ZBi-phobias","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1297\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}