When I first sat down with my oncologist the day before Thanksgiving, and she told me I would need 8 rounds of chemo, one of my first questions admittedly was: 'Will I lose my hair?' It sounds shallow, I know, but it was a very scary image to me.
I'd make a terrible surgeon. The fear of blood? Very high on my list.
I learned a long time ago that minor surgery is when they do operation on someone else, not you.
I'm not afraid of needles.
As a child, I was more afraid of tetanus shots than, for example, Dracula.
I'm scared of injections and needles.
People should be afraid of the cancer, not the mammogram.
I literally pass out when I see blood.
I went to the doctor, and they found something in my bladder. And whenever they find something, it's never anything good like, "We found something in your bladder AND IT'S SEASON TICKETS TO THE YANKEES!!"
I'm constantly in fear of having a stroke.
Being diabetic was not what I thought of as being normal, and I feared the stigma of having to take medicine and having people stick me with a needle.
I'm a hypochondriac. Yesterday it was brain damage from the vodka the night before. Today, heart attack - my arm and chest started hurting at the same time.
With the arrogance of youth, I thought, 'I don't drink, don't smoke, I don't do drugs, so why would I get cancer?' The week I spent waiting for the result of the biopsy to see if it was malignant felt like the longest of my life.
Dementia is our most-feared illness, more than heart disease or cancer.
I'm not that keen on the idea of being unconscious.
Faced with the choice of enduring a bad toothache or going to the dentist, we generally tried to ride out the bad tooth.
I was terrified of getting the chemo. It's not pleasant. And the radiation is not pleasant.
I'm not scared of snakes, spiders, flying... nothing scares me apart from needles. I just hate them. Which is quite funny because I've had four knee operations, and I've got tattoos, so I've seen a few needles in my time.
You went up to be examined with the other Jewish children, your heart heavy about that matter of your nose.
Giving blood, or being near a needle, is the absolute worst.
I had a sore throat for a long time and it scared me. I saw a lump in my throat and I was terrified. I wouldn't go to a doctor.
Well, first of all, let me say that I might have made a tactical error in not going to a physician for 20 years. It was one of those phobias that really didn't pay off.
It's much easier to go through something and deal with it without being under a microscope... It was stressful. I was terrified getting the chemo. It's not pleasant. And the radiation is not pleasant.
I'm afraid of needles, except acupuncture needles.
Needles. No needles for me, brother. I can't even watch when they get put into somebody else. I don't even get flu shots, none at all.
