Adam: Let me see this splinter.
Katy: There's blood. You won't get queasy?
Adam: Katy, I'm not going to get queasy from a little... Um...
Katy: I need smelling salts and an actual adult.
Clayton: Was dad practicing handstands again?
Our eldest was always a wuss when it came to blood. I asked her what she was going to do when she got married and had kids. “Tell them ’don’t you dare bleed until your father gets home!’” Actually, she shaped up rather well.
I am one of those people who don’t do well with blood. Small scrapes are fine, but if it’s a gusher, I’m gone. Sometimes even being in a hospital will make me light headed. Maybe it has something to do with my low blood pressure and the stress of an injury. Either way, my husband knows that if I say that I need to sit down, I mean now!
Let’s not make fun of blood-injury-injection phobia, which makes people faint more than other phobias. It’s involuntary as any mental disorder and not a sign of overall wimpiness or childishness.
i_am_the_jam over 10 years ago
That’s a big splinter…
pcolli over 10 years ago
Some people faint at the sight of blood. I can stand the blood but I wince at the sight of cut flesh.
Dani Rice over 10 years ago
Our eldest was always a wuss when it came to blood. I asked her what she was going to do when she got married and had kids. “Tell them ’don’t you dare bleed until your father gets home!’” Actually, she shaped up rather well.
ChessPirate over 10 years ago
He’s right, he didn’t get queasy, he got unconscious.
susan.e.a.c over 10 years ago
Some people see blood, they faint. Nothing they can do about it.
lightenup Premium Member over 10 years ago
I am one of those people who don’t do well with blood. Small scrapes are fine, but if it’s a gusher, I’m gone. Sometimes even being in a hospital will make me light headed. Maybe it has something to do with my low blood pressure and the stress of an injury. Either way, my husband knows that if I say that I need to sit down, I mean now!
Stephen Gilberg over 10 years ago
Let’s not make fun of blood-injury-injection phobia, which makes people faint more than other phobias. It’s involuntary as any mental disorder and not a sign of overall wimpiness or childishness.