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I have an intense phobia of dentists; if I were wearing a constant monitor, I bet you could tell when I was at the dentist just by watching the blood pressure and heart rate spikes. (You'd have to find some way of differentiating them from me being in a car accident, or being attacked by a werewolf.)


Werewolf attacks usually fall on predictable dates, during night hours.


A werewolf is always a werewolf, even if they're not actively in their beast form. So you can be attacked by a werewolf any time.


Is this true? A full moon only last two or three days and it might be that werewolves are more irritable in their human form than their wolf form.


I wonder if it would show up on the heart rate (or heart rate variability) tracking from an Apple Watch or similar. My Garmin picks up stressful events all the time.


I have a mild fear of needles. Whenever my wife does acupuncture on me, I am quite uneasy in the beginning, looking away but still I end up covered in a bit of sweat till she finishes putting needles on all the points (and sometimes they are properly weird places I wouldn't imagine sticking tiny needle into... doesn't help). Don't monitor the heart rate/pressure but it must jump up significantly


I have a pretty serious fear of needles, to the point that phlebotomists always ask me if I'm going to pass out (to which I always answer, "never have before, but maybe today's the day!")

Once, I had to give my spouse an injection, and I almost passed out and threw up, once when they took the cap off the syringe and accidentally poked themselves in the finger, and then when I actually had to administer the injection.

I know I'd get used to it, but there's a decent chance that if I had to give myself insulin shots, I'd just fucking die.


It's interesting that you have a baseline for 'being attacked by a werewolf'.


You don’t??


“Luck favors the prepared.”


Just to be sure, the cure ain't no silver bullet.


Just to be clear, 'fang doctor' doesn't actually refer to a medical werewolf. :D


It's a medical vampire, for when a medicinal leech is not sufficient.


Can confirm, I was a FAANG doctor (Ph.D.) for a while, not a werewolf.




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