Justin Allen says he thought doctor was ‘messing’ with him and that they’d never forget where they were during quake

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    For Justin Allen from Horsham, Pennsylvania, this was his exact reality on Friday when the New York City metropolitan area and its outskirts were shaken by a 4.8 quake.

    The earthquake was centered near Lebanon, New Jersey, according to the US Geological Survey, though people reported feeling its effects across New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts and Pennsylvania.

    According to the Mayo Clinic, many vasectomy procedures are done using local anesthesia, which means the patient will be awake and have medicine to numb the surgery area.

    “I really wasn’t worried because he had walked me through every step of the procedure, so it mostly felt like a brief speed bump and we were mostly just calm and laughing as the room shook,” he explained.

    As of late Friday morning and early afternoon, the governor, Kathy Hochul, announced there were no injuries or structural damage as a result of the quake.In response to his initial tweet, Allen’s wife, Bridget, shared a snapshot of him beside a sign reading: Urology Health Surgery Center.

    Alongside a still of Carrie Bradshaw musing at her computer in an episode of Sex and the City, another person quipped: “as a 4.7 magnitude earthquake hit manhattan i couldn’t help but wonder … was my relationship with big structurally sound enough to withstand the impact?”

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