I don't want to be smaller!!

I thought of something funny that did come out of the recent ER visit with Gage, when we first got there, after a few priliminary checks, they did decide to put in an IV after they first told him "no, don't worry, no iv's". Well, he watches them like a hawk! I mean he scrutinizes the needles, even watches intently as they enter his body no matter how much I try to get him to look away. This time, as the sharp metal entered his vein to drain three vials of blood needed for testing, he said "Katherine, that hurts...ouch!" he always calls the nurses by name and is quite good at remembering names with faces...he always wants to know their names since he would never allow someone to interact with or remove fluids from his body without at least knowing their name. He tells the nurse "why are you collecting blood? I need that, will you please stop? I don't want to be smaller, and taking that out will make me smaller...see look Katherine, my arm just got shorter!!" and what's so funny about all of this, is that he was VERY SERIOUS. He was not smiling one bit, he's quite the salesman. He has a knack of trying to convince people of any and everything, believable or not...