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Laura continued to process her mental conundrum of pain and pleasure, as the nurse continued to massage the injection sites. When Jo had completed that task, she said to Laura in a reassuring voice, "you did great on those last two, only two more to go and we'll be finished. These last two are the penicillin shots for your strep and pneumococcal infections. Sorry, but you may find these a bit uncomfortable." In reality, the remaining two large volume penicillin injections were enormous in every way, and would most certainly be the most painful shots Laura had ever received.

In order to more evenly spread all the medications over a larger area of gluteal muscle, the nurse would be using 2 inch,16 gauge needles which were longer and thicker than those normally used for an IM injection. The added length would allow her to administer the medicine into deeper gluteal muscle tissue; and the thicker needle and larger bore would allow the highly concentrated suspension of paste-like penicillin to flow smoother and be less likely to clog the needle during the injection.

Before proceeding, Jo carefully studied the previous puncture wounds and gently palpated the patient's left buttock. She was locating an area with minimal bruising and tissue swelling in order to minimize, as much as possible, the intense pain and deep muscle trauma that would undoubtedly result from the unusually large shot she was about to administer. With a suitable site selected, she turned to the tray stand and picked up the first syringe of penicillin and began shaking the contents to loosen the thick suspension.

While the nurse was preparing the shot, Laura, for no other reason than to stretch a bit, lifted her head and upper body from the table by her elbows. Through a chance coincidence of timing, she turned her head toward the nurse just at the very moment Jo uncapped the needle to purge excess air from the syringe. There was no way Laura could have possibly been prepared for what she saw in front of her. This shot was unlike any she had ever seen. The sight of it was so frightening that she felt faint and immediately felt knots in her stomach.

The nurse had loaded each 5cc dose of medicine into a 10cc syringe, leaving enough unfilled space in the barrel to allow her to vigorously shake the thick penicillin just before giving the shot. The large syringe was intimidating and it appeared to contain a huge amount of opaque, white medicine. Attached to it was a very long, thick and scary looking needle. The instrument was terrifying.

In total shock and disbelief Laura watched while the nurse slowly pushed the plunger until a few drops of the medicine ran down the side of the needle; and she continued to fixate on it for a couple of seconds before she was able to turn her head away as the nurse re-capped the needle.

To Laura, this thing looked more like something a vet would use to administer medication to a large animal than a shot for a human. Instantly, the vision of it was etched in her memory and cold chills went up her spine as she quickly closed her eyes and returned her head to the pillow.

Despite her best efforts to dismiss the blazoned image from her mind, the fear that enormous shot conjured up was going nowhere. Along with the fear, however, a sudden rush of adrenaline set her heart racing about ninety miles an hour, while her mind drifted back a few months to when Matt had introduced her to the cane. She recalled seeing the thin, wispy implement for the first time and how terrifying it looked, and how frightened she was that her ass would become its target.

She remembered the breathtaking, utterly fantastic feeling of the first gentle, caressing, strokes of the rod; how thrilling and intoxicating was the sharp, burning pain as Matt gradually increased the intensity of the strokes. The strokes were never brutal or abusive, not even hard enough to break the skin; but carefully inflicted so as to leave a few stinging, bright red stripes or welts across her butt as a glowing reminder of his deep affection for his adorable little school-girl. A smile came to her face as Laura recalled that along with the increasing pain, rather quickly came the simultaneous feelings of trust, protection, love, and euphoria that she craved and always found so comforting and thoroughly addictive throughout their role-play sessions.

As she once again tried to process all the conflicting emotions of fear, pain, pleasure and sheer excitement that were rushing through her brain, Laura began to equate the feelings elicited by the initial sight of the cane, with the heart-pounding thrill conjured up by the image of the very large needle that was, in a matter of seconds, destined for her backside.

Either from fright, anticipation, or maybe both, Laura felt a rush of excitement when the nurse asked, "are you ready?"

Those words immediately triggered a level of fear that for a brief instant overtook all the other emotions in her mind. Her hands and forehead began to perspire as Laura's thoughts were suddenly and entirely focused on the intense pain she was certain would accompany the piercing wound from a needle that looked to her like a small meat skewer and having yet another large syringe full of medicine pumped into her already battered and bruised buttocks.

Along with the fear however, her fascination and anticipation for it quickly returned as well. Shifting her position on the table just a bit, she slightly raised her hips, appearing very much to be offering up her magnificent ass for a sacrificial rite, as she responded to the nurse with a simple, "sure."

The nurse picked up a prep wipe, opened it and turned to her trembling patient on the examining table as she announced, "we'll go back to the left side for the first one.”

Unaware that Laura had gotten a glimpse of the shot, Jo began wiping the target area with an alcohol pad and, in an effort to prepare her for what was coming, calmly explained, "penicillin is very thick and these are big shots with a lot of medicine. The needle is large to allow the medicine to easily pass through it. I'm sorry I have to give these to you, but I want you to be ready; these shots are going to hurt. Relax your bottom, turn the toes in, take a deep breath, and here we go."

Jo held the syringe in her right hand and uncapped the needle with her left. She knew that a firm jab, with slightly more pressure than used for the previous injections, would be required to ensure quick penetration of a needle this size through the skin and into deep muscle of the patient's buttock. With the needle aimed at its fleshy target, the nurse placed the fingers of her left hand on either side of the prepped injection site, slightly stretched the skin, and then told Laura, "there's going to be a really big stick and an intense, burning sting when the needle goes in. It's important that you hold still for me." Laura sensed sincerity and a bit of sympathy in her voice as the nurse continued speaking, "now here it comes."

All thoughts immediately left Laura's mind except for the mental image of that enormous needle. She buried her face in the pillow, closed her eyes and clenched her fists. But despite her best efforts to brace for it, she was totally shocked when the unimaginable seething, stabbing pain overtook her as the 2 inch, 16 gauge spear savagely bit into her butt. Laura wanted to scream out loud it hurt so bad; but held her composure and instead let out a loud gasp and moan as the needle's razor-sharp, steely point punctured her skin and made its way deep into her ass. As Jo was aspirating the shot, the pain from the long, thick needle buried to the hilt in her already severely wounded backside was so extreme it literally took her breath away. She squeezed the pillow tightly as Jo began to slowly push the thick, pasty penicillin into her butt. The pain and burning was indescribable, and Laura honestly felt like her entire butt was about to explode from all the medicine that had been injected into it.

As the shot continued, her pain level rapidly flew off the charts. Laura tried desperately, but the burning and stretching of muscle tissue got the better of her. "OOWWW," she softly moaned and felt tears - real tears, big tears - start to well up in her eyes. As she began to cry she clenched her fists tighter, her knuckles were blanched from squeezing so hard. The agonizing, throbbing pain of stretched and abused butt muscle escalated as the large volume shot continued, and her soft weeping turned into loud, steady crying with large streams of tears.

Jo sensed her discomfort and assured her, "I've seen painful injections bring lots of people to tears. Crying is a normal response to pain, and you are bravely enduring a very painful procedure here."

This injection was taking a long time. The needle had been in her ass for easily a full two minutes, if not longer. Laura lay as still as she could while Jo slowly pushed the huge dose of glue-like medicine into her body. "I know it hurts terribly," the nurse said, "close to half of the medicine is in now, but it's so thick and irritating, I can't push it any faster. You're doing great, hang in there."

After another ninety seconds or so of crying and gripping the tear-soaked pillow as tight as possible, Laura finally heard the nurse announce, "that's all for this one, you were a real trooper. I'm going to take the needle out now," the nurse said as she pushed the last agonizing drop of penicillin deep into Laura's behind.

Her pain level had reached maximum. She was quite certain there was no way she could mentally process any additional pain inflicted to her butt cheek. Despite the pain, however, she did feel the coolness of the alcohol wipe used to apply gentle pressure at the injection site, and the agonizing deep tissue pulling and stretching from the huge needle passing through layers of muscle and skin as it was removed.

Jo took the now empty syringe, laid it on the tray and turned back to the exam table. "I'm going to massage the injection site for a minute or two," she said, "this helps to disperse the medicine into the muscle and should ease some of the soreness."

"Are you doing OK?" the nurse asked as she opened a 3x3 gauze wipe pad.

"I think so," Laura answered with a quiver in her voice from crying. The left side of her butt now had three obvious puncture marks, two of which were vicious looking and still bleeding from wounds left by the larger needles. There was significant bruising around the injection sites, and her entire hip was red and mottled. With a very light, gentle touch, the nurse began using circular motions to rub the area around the injection sites with the gauze pad.

"I'm so sorry," Jo said as she pressed down firmly with the gauze pad, covering an area about an inch around the needle marks, "but this really will make it feel better." The site massage continued for a couple of minutes, and after the initial pain, the massage did start to feel good - really good, in fact.

"Mmmmmmmm, that's soothing," Laura cooed as the nurse gently but firmly continued the massage. The intense throbbing pain and soreness was swiftly taking on the now familiar added feeling of soothing warmth as her body released its own internal pain medicine. Her tears continued, but were now simultaneously tears of pain and sheer excitement.

Laura closed her eyes and once again let herself mentally drift as the wash of emotions from the shots permeated her mind. Much to her surprise, her butt began to feel very much like it did after a wonderfully intense spanking or paddling from Matt. She thought of how much she enjoyed, even craved, her loving, caring partner's warm hand administering a firm paddling to her butt, or the sharp, biting sting of the cane he could ever so expertly guide giving her a simultaneous jolt of consuming, blistering pain and totally enthralling erotic pleasure.

Jo continued the soothing massage for another minute before she threw away the bloody wipe pad. Laura drifted back to reality as the nurse unwrapped a large adhesive bandage and carefully placed it on her buttock so as to cover all three injection sites.

"Are you ready for the last one?" Jo asked her patient.

Laura quickly replied an affirmative "sure" to the question, but she was in fact much more than merely ready. Even though she knew the shot was going to hurt terribly, she also knew that once the excruciating pain was over, the same wonderful feeling that was now in her left butt cheek would soon follow on the right side. That thought had her teeming with excitement and anticipation.

Laura felt the nurse palpate her right buttock and then the cold alcohol wipe as her skin was prepared for the needle.

"Last one," Jo said as she uncapped the needle and aimed it at the selected injection site.

As bad timing would have it, Laura experienced a twitch in her leg muscle just as the needle pierced her skin. With her firmly toned muscles tightened, the needle went in just below the skin surface before meeting resistance. Jo had to use a stabbing motion in order to drive the needle its' full length into Laura's backside. Knowing that the needle penetrating tight muscle would be agonizing, the nurse placed her left hand low on Laura's back to help keep her from jumping as a reaction to the stick.

Needless to say, the large needle jabbing into tight muscle was nothing short of excrutiating. Laura felt a terrible stabbing pain that knocked the wind out of her, like nothing she had felt all day or could even imagine, followed by an intense burning and stretching sensation as Jo continued to push the enormous needle into her butt. The sudden, severe pain was indescribable, and her excitement and anticipation for the shot had been totally overtaken by a feeling like she had been hit in the ass with a baseball bat.

"OOOUUUUCCHH, OOOHHH CCCRRRRRAAPPP, Laura very loudly moaned - almost with the intensity of a scream - as by instinct she involuntarily attempted to raise up from the table. Jo held her in place until she regained her composure.

"You OK?" the nurse asked.

"Yea, sorry, that hurt like bloody hell, and just caught me by surprise," Laura answered. "I didn't expect it to hurt that much."

"Sorry, there was nothing I could do to prevent it. Your muscle tightened just as the needle went in," the nurse explained.

Laura did not reply to the comment, but after a couple of seconds, she felt the liquid fire of the thick medicine start to enter her right butt cheek. With the trauma already inflicted to her gluteal muscle from the previous shots, this thick medicine was very close to unbearably painful and seemed to burn and sting much worse than the last penicillin shot. Laura gasped loudly as she once again clenched her fists and began to cry.

As with the last shot, the pain level in her butt very quickly approached its maximum threshold long before the injection was completed. When she was no longer able to perceive any additional pain from the shot, she felt the cool wetness of the alcohol pad and felt the stretching pull as Jo began to withdraw the needle from her severely injured buttock.

Once the needle was out, the nurse happily announced, "alright young lady, the hard part is over with now," as she laid the syringe back on the tray.

Jo opened a 3x3 gauze pad and wiped a stream of blood that seeped from the fresh wound in Laura's bottom left by the large needle. When the bleeding had slowed, the nurse opened a second gauze pad and began massaging the right cheek.

Laura's butt was ravaged - covered with red and purple spots, sore, throbbing, bloody, bruised, swollen, and just a complete mess. As the nurse applied pressure around each injection site, Laura realized just how much her poor bottom was really hurting. So much medicine had been injected into her gluteal muscles, she literally felt like her ass was swollen at least three times its normal size. The pain was still overwhelming and tears were still streaming down her cheek from crying, leaving little trails of mascara on the pillow and cover paper as she raised her torso off the table a few inches and rested on her elbows. "That one was brutal, much worse than the previous one," she managed to say.

"That was a really big shot of some very painful medicine, and a lot of it," Jo offered. "You took it well though," the nurse said, almost as if congratulating the patient for enduring the treatment.

As the nurse massaged Laura's rear end, It only took a couple of minutes for the adrenaline and endorphins to kick in and the vicious pain to begin transforming to the intense, euphoric feeling that she craved and knew would follow the agonizing experience of that last penicillin shot.

"Mmmmmmmm, that feels good," Laura said as the nurse gently but firmly continued the massage. Her tears continued, but the intense, stinging pain in her bottom was now secondary to the entrancing, tingling pleasure it was sending all the way to her toes.

Jo continued the right side massage for another couple of minutes before she threw away the bloody wipe pad, and then placed a large bandage over the injection sites.

With a strange mixture of relief and sadness, Laura realized the injections were completed when she felt the nurse reach for the waist band of her panties. She very gently lifted her hips a bit as Jo pulled her underpants up, and was quickly met with a sharp, stinging reminder that her butt was still quite injured from all the needles and medicine she had received.

"Laura, it’s very seldom that I have to give a treatment procedure that painful and with that much medication," the nurse said as she began gathering equipment from the bedside tray. "I fully expect your bottom is going to be terribly sore for quite a while, at least a few days and possibly up to a week before the soreness goes away entirely. And I'm sure your legs and hips will be stiff and it will be very uncomfortable to get up in the morning. Starting this evening, you will probably want to take some ibuprofen or acetaminophen a couple of times a day for the next few days until the worst of the pain and stiffness subsides a bit.

Don't be alarmed if you see some deep bruising on your hips and buttocks for several days. In fact, it might take a couple of weeks or more for the bruises to completely clear up. Leave the bandages on until bedtime tonight, and then take them off. All the bleeding should have stopped by then, even from the bigger puncture sites. If you see any bleeding, just cover that site with a small bandage and it should be stopped by morning. Walking will almost certainly be painful and you will likely not be walking with a normal gait for a couple of days since the muscles in your butt and legs are going to be really stretched and sore.

Even though it will be painful, I do encourage you to walk as much as you can, however, to keep the muscles from getting stiff and also to work the medicines in. This is all expected and normal given what you just went through. If you have any extreme pain or something doesn't seem right, call the office at once." While the nurse was giving her instructions, Laura reached her hand behind her back and attempted to lightly rub her bottom through her underwear. She was amazed at the intensity with which the throbbing, burning pain immediately re-ignited, like someone put a flame to her ass; and the pain became more intense with any movement of her butt or leg muscles or even slight pressure around the injection sites.

"You might want to just lay there for a few minutes before you try to sit up," the nurse suggested. Besides, since we gave you strong antibiotics, you will need to stay in the office for at least thirty minutes so we can monitor you for an allergic reaction. I think it will be more comfortable for you to lie in here rather that get dressed and sit in the waiting room."

Laura quickly agreed with the nurse that moving or sitting might not be the best idea at the moment.

Jo brought the sheet back up to cover the patient's backside and moved the bedside examination lamp to its corner of the room. She was just about to leave the room when there was yet another soft tap on the door.