You're going to try what?!?

Today I went to the doctor to take advantage of Denmark's free healthcare. I hurt my foot walking in bad shoes over a month ago, and I hadn't seen any improvement since about a week after the initial pain. I went in (after wandering around FOREVER in the rain looking for the place) and he starts squeezing places on my foot, trying to figure out where exactly the pain was centered. Good God, it hurt so much! He was putting intense pressure on the source of my discomfort and the area around it, repeatedly! Squeezing hard with two fingers just once wasn't enough - oh no, numerous times were necessary to figure out where the pain was centered. Anyway, after deciphering that nothing was broken or jammed or anything like that, he suggested we try acupuncture. Acupuncture!!! I had no idea that was a common, accepted medical practice around here! And we all know how much I looooove needles (in case you don't, I really really really hate them a lot). So I let him stick a needle in my foot (the alternative is taking a prescription for gout). At first, it didn't hurt. I felt a tiny little stick as the needle went in, but I couldn't feel it actually inside my foot. But, oh, it gets worse. He managed to find the direct center of my pain and stab it for awhile, and then stab around in the neighborhood, and there must have been at least half a dozen separate sticks into my foot - that's not counting the poking around with the needle that occurred after it had penetrated my skin. I was in hell! Finally he finished and told me to call in a couple days if it hadn't improved. I'm sure that won't be necessary - I don't see why stabbing my foot with a needle wouldn't improve it!