Note from Stacey

Friday, I had my monthly shot of octreotide. It is an IM (Intra-muscle) shot. The needle is so big it even scares the nurses, since I am so small and thin. The nurse asked me to stand up and bend over the chair while she gave me the shot. It brought back memories of junior high at a tiny school in Joyce, Washington. One afternoon, my parents came to class to talk about transferring me from 7th grade math to 9th grade math, and we were told to wait outside for a minute. It was school policy for the teachers to hit “bad” students with wooden paddles with holes in them, and the teacher was in the middle of a paddling session. I find it hard to believe I lived in a time where capital punishment in the public schools was the norm. Well…the shot was not nearly as painful as I imagine a whack with a paddle would be, but it did leave me a little sore for two days. Stacey, from Belmont