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“Okay, Fluttershy, you can do this…”
The nervous pegasus pony pushed open to the door to Ponyville Hospital, and found herself shaking as she approached the front counter. The clerk working there gave her a smile, but it didn’t do anything to calm her nerves. She did her best to crack a smile, trying to formulate a greeting. Why, oh why, did she have to be so scared of the doctor’s office? They helped ponies, yet she always found herself totally uncomfortable.
‘Come on, Fluttershy, it’s for your own good…’ She scolded herself, trying to work up the courage to speak.
After a few moments, she cleared her throat. “Um, hi, I need to see Doctor Horse, please…”
“Certainly,” the mare smiled. “You’ll just need to fill out this form.”
Fluttershy took the clipboard she was offered, and pranced over to a seat in the waiting room. That had gone well enough, but the hardest part laid ahead. There were a few other ponies in the waiting room with her, but they mostly kept to themselves as she filled out her form. There was one little colt that kept kicking at her seat, but she did her best to ignore it as she signed her name, followed by the date.
Fluttering over to the counter, she handed the clipboard, with her papers held tightly, back to the clerk. “Thank you very much, Fluttershy. Nurse Redheart will be with you momentarily.”
Fluttershy nodded, and flew back to her seat. ‘Momentarily? Who knows how long that could be… I could be stuck here for hours, or days! Oh gosh, what if I have to spend the rest of my life here?! I’ve gotta get out of—”
“Fluttershy?” Nurse Redheart’s unmistakeable voice tore her away from those scary thoughts, and she let out a sigh.
‘Oh, she meant a few seconds, hehe…’
Fluttershy got up, and made her way over to the nurse she’d come to know over her years in Ponyville. “H-hello, Nurse Redheart.”
“Good afternoon, Fluttershy,” Redheart replied, letting the doorway to the waiting room slam shut behind them. Fluttershy jumped at the noise, and Redheart tittered. “Every time?”
Fluttershy chuckled nervously. “Sorry…”
“It’s fine,” Redheart smiled, stopping just as the pair were about to round a corner. She motioned towards a scale placed up against the wall. “Please step on the scale so we can have your weight.”
Fluttershy climbed onto the scale, and watched as it landed right where she thought it would.
“Hundred and five pounds, very good,” Redheart noted, writing it down in Fluttershy’s file. “How tall are you, Fluttershy?”
“Four feet, one inch,” Fluttershy replied. This was going well, much easier than she remembered it being last time. She watched as Redheart wrote that down as well, then began to trot off around the corner. Quick to follow her, Fluttershy was led into a small room, which she recognized as the doctor’s office. “Um, will Doctor Horse be long?”
Redheart smiled. “Just have a seat on the bed, he’ll be here shortly.” With that, the door slammed shut, and Fluttershy winced. The wait for the doctor was a bit longer than she would have liked, but there was at least a few magazines to flip through to pass the time.
Once the door opened again, a light brown stallion poked his head through the door. “Fluttershy?”
The timid pegasus nodded her head, and Doctor Horse slipped into the room, closing the door quietly behind himself. Walking over to his desk, he took a seat and quickly went over her file. Once he was done, he spun his chair around to face her, and smiled. “I understand you’re here about a cough that’s been bothering you?”
“Oh, yes. It’s been bothering me for a couple weeks now.” She paused, hoping not to insult him with what she said next. “I actually didn’t want to come here, but Rainbow Dash made me.”
“Well, I can assure you there’s nothing to worry about. I’m sure Ms. Dash is simply looking out for your best interests,” he said, putting on his stethoscope and placing the pad on her chest. “Deep breaths, please.”
Fluttershy did as he said, and he pulled away after a few breaths. “She is, it’s just… I’m a bit scared of the doctor’s office,” she admitted. To her surprise, Doctor Horse chuckled as he went back over to her file, writing something down in it.
“Trust me, you’re not alone in having that fear Fluttershy. Anyways, you’re sinuses are most likely acting up as a result of all the pollen in the air this time of year. It’s nothing to worry ab—” Doctor Horse stopped abruptly, and that worried Fluttershy. “Well this is certainly odd.”
“Uh oh, is something wrong, doctor?”
“According to what you’ve filled out here, you’ve never had a tetanus shot?” He asked, raising an eyebrow as he turned back to face her.
Fluttershy’s eyes widened. “Oh, no! I was always too scared as a little filly to get a shot!”
“Well,” he continued, swiveling around in his chair and opening up a cabinet, “that needs to change. If you don’t get a tetanus shot, you could risk infection if you ever get a cut or puncture your skin.”
“Heh, well I’m sure that wouldn’t be so bad.” She wasn’t sure who she was trying to convince, herself or Doctor Horse, but she knew she was doing a poor job of both. She had already found out what was wrong, so what would be the problem if she didn’t get a tetanus shot?
“Please, Fluttershy, for my sake. I would sleep better at night knowing you didn’t walk out of here without taking every precaution you could against getting a bad infection and winding back up here.”
Fluttershy let out a sigh at hearing that, and slowly nodded her head. “Alright…”
Her mind changed almost immediately when she saw the size of the needle he pulled out of the cabinet, though, and she practically flew back into the wall away from him. He let out a sigh as her eyes turned to pinpricks. “Fluttershy, I promise you that it’s not as painful as you believe it will be. It’ll just be a little prick.”
Fluttershy wasn’t having any of his lies, though, and flew around the room trying to avoid him, knocking over numerous items as she did. “N-no, please! I don’t wanna die!”
“It’s not going to kill you!” he shouted, grabbing her with his magic. She closed her eyes in fear as he brought the needle over and approached her. “I didn’t want to have to do this, Fluttershy, but you’ve left me no choice.”
The next thing Fluttershy felt was a tiny pinch on her right foreleg for a few seconds, and then nothing. “Wh-what?”
“All done,” he sounded annoyed. “But you’ve completely wrecked my office.”
Fluttershy took a look around. There were vials broken on the floor, papers everywhere, a few paintings had fallen off of the walls, and she’d knocked over a plant and spilled the soil everywhere. Chuckling nervously, she turned back to face him. “Uh, hehe, at least it didn’t hurt?”
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Just wait until all of Fluttershy's missed shots catch up to her...
haha brilliant!
No, didn't suck at all! It was actually pretty great!
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I don't think that was said... she was talking about shots
7151274 Whoops, sorry. I went back and read and that's what the author's note did say now that you mention. Well, there's another moment of me putting my foot inside my mouth again.
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Heh, its okay. Just wanted to let you know
You'd think that a VETERINARIAN would be smart enough to get vaccinated before working with all those animals...
Oh, I know poor little Fluttershy's pain. I, too, have the dreaded fear of needles.
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That's pretty much me, too. My brother makes it look so easy, but it's not.
7151291 I understand. If you're wondering, the double facehoof means I put my foot in my mouth more then normal, which for me is saying something.
Read it as "Fluttershy gets shot"
R.I.P.
Ever heard of a baby dragon flipping off somepony?
I too have an insane fear of needles. When I was six years old. I had to get the shot you got in the butt. It took six full grown doctors plus my parents to hold me down to get 1 shot. I know. I'm a wimp. Lol. But I am liable to straight up deck someone if they got anywhere near me with a needle.
Dr Horse needs to go back to medical shool. Tetanus is bad, but I'm extremely concerned about Fluttershy's weight; a pony of that size should weigh about 700 pounds.
This is extra amusing because the Tetnus jab needle is teeny!
Back when I served in the JROTC my SO was a army ranger for ten years. He was recipiant of the purple heart and silver star. Anyway when we were at summer camp they gave us booster shots. And I saw my SO, this 40+ year old combat veteran duck his head and sneak to the back of the line. And when his turn finally came and they stuck that needle in I saw him turn white as a sheet. Made everyone forget that I cried and passed out. We all have our fears and needles is a perfectly understandable one.
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.
- Mark Twain
I am Fluttershy when it comes to needles. Once, when I six, my parents took my siblings and I to get our blood tested for CVID. Took two nurses, a doctor and my dad to hold me down as they inserted a butterfly needle into the crook of my elbow. I had the healthiest blood out of ALL FIVE of my siblings.
Anticlimactic, really.
The last time I had a shot, 18 years ago, they had me in a room next to the waiting room full of kids. I let some expletives fly that would have made a salior blush, those kids heard me. It took 4 male nurses to hold me down and even after it was over I was still looking to beat the stuffing out of the nurses and the doctor. I view shots as a direct violation of the Hipporatic Oath they claim to uphold. Glad I plan on never having kids because I would half to put them through this torture.
That was cute.
7151633 So did I LOL
To be honest, I am perfectly fine with shots.
The doctor says "You need a shot."
Me before he brings out the needle:
Me after he brings out the needle:
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*Retarded shit*
7154657 Your probably in for an opinion. If you don't consider this as a story, then maybe give some advice to the author, instead of the author just thinking your comment was just a random filler.
Anyways, I thought the plot of the story was pretty funny and wholesome, and could be a possible relate-able story for younger audience members. Geez, had to respell.. This is what happens when you stay up till like 3:00 in the morning.
Even thou there was little minor errors, I'd like you to continue growing strong as a writer, if that's what you want to be.
9/10; just a few minor mistakes, but overall awesomeness
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Do you also think that they cause autism?
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*Ungodly retarded things I said before*
7155089 Anyone who says vaccines causes autism is a moron. I'm sorry, but they can't cause genetic disorders of the brain.
And this story was really simple and cute. Good read
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YEAH!!!
7154582 Do you know how vaccines work? The logic of them making it more like for you to get the illness, but less likely for those around you makes absolutely no sense.
7154582 vaccines don't work that way
vaccines introduce a dead or weakened form of an infectious organism into your bloodstream so that your immune system creates compounds engineered specifically to kill that particular organism
so that if you're ever infected with that organism your body knows how to combat it and you don't get sick
7155586 >no personally i don't support vaccines
kindly remove yourself from the human race.
the last time i had to get shots, i needed a MRSA shot, and then the clinic found out that they couldn't find a record of me having received vaccines for literally eight different things
so i had to sit through five shots
i was such a bitch about it that they brought the little-kid book with my needles
i can mainline heroin like a champ, but i hate getting shots
7151436 The only vet we've seen in Ponyville is Mane Goodallvignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/mlp/images/c/c0/Mane_Goodall_smiling_at_Spike_S2E10.png/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/220?cb=20160119194822
So Angel never had shots?
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You know, it wouldn't surprise me if she was totally okay with making sure her animals are all vaccinated properly, it's just all bets are off when it comes to her getting vaccinated herself.
Dude, that was hilarious!
Well done! And so true to life! Good work, Seventh Heaven!
Great story! I really loved how you captured the comedy in words, excellent job! The following events were completely hilarious, I'd recommend this story to others!
Also, maybe you should use italics when you write thoughts, just a suggestion. Another suggestion, try to make your stories longer. You don't want it to seem rushed up. You should try adding more details to give the reader a visual description.
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That's just... not. I mean look at Tetanus. It's incurable, has a roughly ten percent death rate, and is one of the most ludicrously horrible ways to die. You get muscle spasms strong enough to break your long bones and shatter your teeth. If the vaccinated population had an increased chance of getting *that*, trust me we'd notice.
It's bastards like you that have infants dying of freaking *whooping cough* in the 21st century. Freaking *polio* is coming back. Do you want to go back to hospitals filled with kids in iron lungs? If everyone thought like you that's where we're headed.
7497581 *retarded shit I said*
7173904 Hey, I have MRSA, too!
7497625 You should keep that to yourself. I don't have it.
7497636 Oh. Oops.
...
Eh. I don't care if people know. No biggie!
7497639 I also don't appreciate the revival of a dead comment thread.
You have fucking MRSA because you're an antivax retard. Kindly either remove yourself or limit your contact to children, old people, and the public in general.
7497648 Wait, how did I revive that comment thread, first of all?
And second-
-eat a Snickers. You're not you when you're hungry.
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>coming onto my story, being an asshole, and then saying you don't appreciate someone bringing back up an old topic when it's not even your story
Kindly fuck off.
7497675 Don't pay him any attention.
7497683 Ok.
Needles suck.
I hate shots, and I need to make a appointment to get my Cough Cough Sniffle Sniffle Shot