I do! I'm home from my tests. Nothing abnormal showed up, but they took biopsies of some tissue just to be extra safe. I'm home now, a little loopy from the drugs and finally eating something!
'The Killer In Me'
Spike's Bitches 46: Don't I get a cookie?
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Good!
My biggest problem is that I am running out of veins to stick an IV in. It took three people today before they finally stuck me in the thumb.
yuck! I hope they don't have to stick you again for a good long time.
Ooh, I hate getting stuck in the thumb. That really hurts.
It usually takes two people to get me. I try and encourage anyone who starts to stick it out, but they don't seem to want to.
yuck! I hope they don't have to stick you again for a good long time.
I have another iron infusion on Thursday and the hopefully last one on Monday, so I need at least 2 more veins.
I remember the best thing about being in the hospital was they could stick me right in the iv. Other than that, being in a hospital sucks. And I have good veins. I wish I could send my big obvious veins through the interpipes to you, sj.
Thanks, laga. Hopefully it won't be as bad when I am not dehydrated. I wasn't allowed any liquids today before the tests which sort of made my small veins non-existent. Usually I am sure to hydrate well before I am supposed to have bloodwork.
ita and sj, you need to come to the clinic here. I've told every tech I've had in the last five years--you might as well start with the back of the left hand. It goes: left inner elbow, right inner elbow, and finally the back of the hand, so let's just start there, okay?
I went to this clinic a year ago b/c three techs at the practice left me bruised and still couldn't find a vein that didn't punk out. I told the lovely Russian woman my sad story, she made a "Phfft" noise, tapped the outside of my left elbow on the first try, and manages a good tap in the same spot every time. I'd marry her, if we weren't both, already.
Patriotism swells in the heart of the American Bear.
Try telling that to Stephen Colbert.