I've always had a problem with doctors, needles, blood. I have fainted more than once during health lessons on the circulatory system at school when I was a kid. I made a true believer out of my sixth grade science teacher about my problem when I passed out during a film. That year, I took my test on that part of the test out on the playground. I explained how the circulatory system worked with all it's parts. If I got in the class room setting, I had a problem with it. He learned that I probably understood it better than any other kid and I got an A.

I always loved to hunt. When I was a kid, I worried about what I was going to do when I had to field dress my first deer. My dad helped me with the first one, and I was so excited about that deer I guess it overcame the problem I had with the blood. That was the only one I have had any help with, and now it is just routine.

To this day, I can gut, skin, and quarter a deer, but I can't give my dog a shot. I know it sounds silly, but it is a real problem.

C. Davis