"This is gonna suck"

I am falling apart. I am an ancient 27-year old lady. Most recent on my list of old-lady maladies is Trigger Finger. About 6-odd months ago, I noticed that my middle finger got "stuck" in the mornings...it wouldn't uncurl without substantial effort. I thought, hey, this is hilarious! Until about a week ago when it started to hurt. I went to our student health center, and sure enough, Trigger Finger. My doc wanted me to go see hand guy ASAP.


So I went today. Turns out this guy actually goes to my church. I totally recognized him, but he didn't recognize me. It was too weird to have my hand checked out by this man I "know" without any sort of "oh, hey, I know you!" so I asked, "Do you go to St Matthew?" He looked totally surprised, and I said that I thought I recognized him/his name, and that I went there. There was still no "oh, yeah, I thought I recognized you too!" or anything like that, but he was nice and so I didn't let it bother me too much.

There are 3 ways to deal with Trigger Finger:

1) Just deal with it. Apparently, however, it is one of those things that won't get better with time; it will only get worse.
2) Get a super-fun steroid shot.
3) Have surgery.

Thankfully, my case isn't too bad and so the super-fun steroid shot should do the trick.

He left, and the nurse got all the injecty things ready.

And then she left.

I was by myself for really only 5-10 minutes, but in that time I got a little anxious, and I made up a "This is gonna suck" song.

Unfortunately, much in the same way that Tenacious D couldn't remember the greatest song in the world, I don't remember all the words that I made up. Mostly though, it was along the lines of "This is gonna suck, this is gonna suck, suck so much but then I'll be better....." etc etc.

So when the good doctor came in, we were just chatting about grad school or something and he said ok, poke! And in went the needle, and the lengthy shot continued.

This was the first time I've ever had a steroid shot. It isn't a quick "poke, shot, done," it's longer. And so I stopped talking. And starting humming my "This is gonna suck" song. He was a little surprised, and kind of made a "hmm?" sound, so I told him what I was singing. He and the nurse burst out laughing, and he said that he usually gets a torrent of profanities, so he'll take a "This is gonna suck" song. And then we made fun of the tough college boys who pass out from the shot.
UPDATE: This actually happened 2 days ago, and I started writing and then got distracted. My finger/hand is still a little sore, and he said it should take ~3 days to really kick in, so I'm waiting....