@pba, I sure hope for you your wife won’t ever read what you just wrote. 🙂 I’ll leave any other response to your post to the ladies, but I think you are extremely brave to say such a thing, perhaps a bit too much so!
Now, on topic, you’re absolutely right. I’ve had blood tests so many times – the last was just a couple of months ago – and I have a hair disorder for which I am currently receiving treatment consisting of about 15 injections in my head every couple of weeks. Anyway, blood tests are a joke. I certainly don’t enjoy them, but it literally hurts for just a few seconds (only the insertion hurts) and then even only a bit.