h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Not a lot to talk about really.

Busy at work, enjoying watching Sue be very busy while I catch up on other bits and pieces. Social life, well, same as usual really, it's there, but doesn't really know what to do with itself. House stuff, J is getting on my nerves due to constant arguing and moaning when I make him get off the telly, but also being very helpful with the dogs so I'll let him off.

Organising for India trip is going well ish, have dropped in form at to find out what they want to stab me with. Had photos taken for passport but due to new stupid parking system in my town I had to leave them in the shop. They said they were *instant*. 5/10 mins is *not* 'instant'. Have spoken to my bank once about paying for the course, and hope to speak to them again today, and have identified a website for flights. Not sure whether paying all that money out will push me to have the injections, or if that will stop me going completely as I away in terror.

I may search for someone prepared to give me a GA (with the mask of course, not a canula) and do the jabs while I'm dead to the world.

Otherwise, please will someone come with me. Someone tough but kind. Mean, but nice. Someone to threaten me with death if I don't have them, but gentle.

I'd love to come and hold your hand, but I'm about 600 miles away in Scotland. However, I can make sure you go and have the jabs even at this distance.
The rabies jab is safe and only requires a little discomfort. Consider what happens if you don't have the jab and you come into contact with an infected animal. It use to be the case that they had to give you 21 daily, very painful injections into the stomach wall with a very large needle. It was only the stomach wall that could take this kind of punishment so that's where you got it. And there was no guarantee of it working.
Now, that ought to do the trick

hmm... well one DEFINITE injection verses 21 POSSIBLE? No contest... The trainer doesn't have his rabies shot.

If you get rabies you will die and its a nasty slow death too.

You'll be around animals, and dogs carry it. There's loads of rabies in India.

Is it worth risking death over?

You may not find anyone who will give you a general anaesthetic for holiday jabs - Have you thought about being hypnotised instead? People have had ops under hypnosis so it does work at that level.

I'd love to come with you but can't

I used to hate injections too but I forced myself to watch the nurse when I gave blood. I soon got over my fear but not everyone is as morbid as me

No, I hadn't thought of being hypnotised, that could work? My dad gave up a 40 year smoking habit with hypnotism.

There's no way I can watch. In the past I've just got up and walked out as soon as the nurse walks in the room. I don't mean to, my body just does it.

Last time I had an op I couldn't have the canula because they hadn't put the local anasthetic on my hand (that's for children!), it's just getting worse and worse.

Where do I find a hypnotherapist?

That's weird, because I've been asked a few times if I wanted local anaesthetic. You obviously do things differently in Englandshire

Could your GP maybe recommend a hypnotherapist? Needle phobias are very common so it's possible they know someone who comes highly recommended.

Oh yeah, good point. I'll ask for a referral.

India??? What have I missed and where is the update? I've been off in my and now I'm back in the 21st century I need to catch up!

The dog behaviourist I am doing most of my training with runs lots of courses all through the year (I've done 3, and would be doing 2 a year), all over the world, plus a correspondance course, and everything would take me about another 3 years (maybe more). He also crams everything into one intensive 21 day course and runs it in India, plus an additional topic that he doesn't cover here at all. Some of the courses I want he has no plans to run in this country in the next couple of years, so to do everything, I need to go to India.

I was invited to the 2010 session, but really didn't want to go abroad, and certainly not to India for that length of time.

Then while I was at my course with him in April (the one where I was to a tree), it came out that going to India covers the correspondance course as well, in the form of discussion with the group and private study when it's too hot to work the dogs (apparently most students work while sunbathing at the lake!) and that swung it. I find it really hard to work at home so it seemed the ideal choice.

Just hate being away from home, especially for such a long time and away from my dogs (and J of course and there's the jabs.

India is a vast country, which part are you going to visit?

A village in Pune, Western hills I think.

How long are you planning to go for?

The course is 21 days, and I have to be in Mumbai an extra day each end. With travelling out there I think I'll be away for nearly 4 weeks.

Apparently private study is done by a lake in the sunshine getting a suntan - that's how he tried to sell it to me, but I'm not really a sunbather. Too moley!