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Physicians and other members of health staff, I know testing has become a part of your routine, but please, take the time to ask if we have any nose problems before swabs.

I have a and I've been operated on my several times. Two days ago, a doctor I don't know just made me cry out in pain because of a COVID swab, and believe me I'm not afraid of pain. I never understand why health practicioners sometimes are so brutal.

Two days later it still hurt.

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Get tested anyway people! But if you are in my case, tell people before that you have a deformity and ask them to be gentle. No need to be in pain in a COVID swab. It's just uncomfortable.

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@johann
Here the swabbing has been serf-administered while the physician observes for ages. I didn't realize this was not universal by now, but it handily solves that particular problem.

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@spatula
I did two tests are home but apparently that was not enough for him, he probably did think I was not thorough enough. 😑

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@johann
I wonder if he ever considered that you can be sick without being sick with COVID. There are a lot of other germs in the wild...

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@spatula
And it is what I have :) neither COVID nor the flu.
You should hear my voice aha, it dropped two octaves. Finally, I'm going through puberty!

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@johann
You're going to start having feelings for other young men, and that's normal.

@spatula
I never had feelings for young men, love, I was always in full daddy complex.