When I was in emergency, there was a little girl there, about 8 or 9, who couldn’t feel her legs from her knees down. She was in the cubicle across from me and when they told her they’d have to draw blood, she got really upset. I showed her where I’d had blood drawn from the back of my had and I still had an IV line in. Keep in mind that I have a needle phobia. I told her if she just doesn’t watch, it won’t hurt.

A little while later she had her mom open the curtain so she could see me and showed me where she had the blood draw and said, while they were doing it she thought of me and it didn’t hurt. AND her cotton on top of it was in the shape of a heart.

I almost cried. I was so glad I could make someone else feel better when I wasn’t.