coming here a bit late but i thought i might add something...it may seem exhausting to explain every time but it can't hurt to keep explaining. perhaps if you tell your doctor about it then it might be put in your charts or something so that whoever is taking the blood will know and be sensitive to your fear. that must really be rough for you. also perhaps trying to reassociate the fear to think that it was what was in or on the needle that killed, not the needle itself...and you are in a doctors office which is clean and sterile. perhaps that will help. good luck with that, Petunia. I think you're very brave for continuing to be strong despite having to face that regularly.

-shadowdancer