A little (related!) comic relief...?
We'll see if I'm allowed to post this?
I just started my biologic a month ago and use those nifty automagic injectors. Have you used them? I use them. Well, try to. Well-designed to be foolproof! Ahem...
The very first self-injection went off with_out_a_hitch. Cake. Swabbed the site, popped the top, press and hold per the instructions, phsst, injected, done! w0ot!
Swabswabswab, poptop, press and hold. Nothing. My wife is a CRNA and is watching me from across our kitchen island. Yeah, that glance. Nothing said.
*This is not a recommendation!!*
So, I...
Press and hold slightly more quickly. Nothing. More slowly. Nada. Tap it gently. Bounce it, with enough time pressed that if it is going to play nice it will be easy to notice. Niet. Not gonna happen. Now, I am a tech consultant who also happens to have respectable lab technique, so I can reasonably iterate. I think?
SO.
After more than a dozen attempts and two slight needle pricks from pressing hard enough to, I decide to see what the release mechanism is or isn't doing. Wife still standing across from me, watching, still not saying anything.
I pointed the injector away from me to gently use my index fingernails to try to pull back the sleeve that is supposed to start the process.
CLICK
And awaayy we go!! We both jumped slightly at the sound as things had been relatively quiet. The injector quickly relieved itself with a laser-like stream of liquid across about 7 feet of space, clearing the island and all over our fridge. It was over in a little more than a second, I think? I thought...dayamn... Thankfully wife was a couple of feet to the side or she'd have gotten it in the face.
She was shocked but me being me got the giggles and could not control them for quite some time.
I *SO* wish I had a video.