Don’t stand while putting any pressure on your left foot. Could be just an awareness thing. Or I could just be full of shit.
Butt . . . before a trip to Tanzania I wanted to get a gamma globulin shot as close to departure as possible so what better place than at the airport (most international airports have medical facilities).
So I walk in and show them the order for the shot. No problem they said. I go in the back room and wait for the nurse. In walks this huge, not fat, Russian nurse and she tells me to drop my trousers and bend over the examining table. Done. Then, I swear to God, it felt like she threw the syringe at my ass from across the room . . . and it stuck. I froze up solid as a rock. The needle felt like a framing nail and gamma globulin has the consistency of mayonnaise. I tenced up so bad she could not push the ‘medicine’ in even with that large bore needle. She told me to relax, sure, but with that needle buried in my ass? Once I took a breadth and relaxed, she was able to finish the very slow injection.
I was so sore after that I could not sit on my left cheek from SFO to Heathrow to Dar es Salaam and for many days thereafter.
That is why I said what I said