Big ass needle like that, would feel it before it got close.... yup, then feel it for years after as well! Won't join in if avoidable, too much vivid imagination clenching butt cheeks in anticipation.
Avoidance take a lancet, prick and test more regularly, things tend to bounce more as one... well you know. Then the Oximeter every so often relax with finger in 🙃still got a pulse, must be alive hooray.
!BEER
It's always good realising one has a pulse and rather problematic if one does not. 🤣
I'd say.....