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.
I got stabbed, you know, right here.
Mal ,'Shindig'
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sj - Feb 09, 2011 9:35:26 am PST #15196 of 30000
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Laga - Feb 09, 2011 9:38:00 am PST #15197 of 30000
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
yuck! I hope they don't have to stick you again for a good long time.
§ ita § - Feb 09, 2011 9:39:32 am PST #15198 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
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.
sj - Feb 09, 2011 9:45:53 am PST #15199 of 30000
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
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.
Laga - Feb 09, 2011 9:57:08 am PST #15200 of 30000
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
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.
sj - Feb 09, 2011 10:00:44 am PST #15201 of 30000
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
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.
Beverly - Feb 09, 2011 10:03:31 am PST #15202 of 30000
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
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.
Frankenbuddha - Feb 09, 2011 10:03:53 am PST #15203 of 30000
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Connie Neil - Feb 09, 2011 10:06:29 am PST #15204 of 30000
brillig
I much prefer the hospital techs to the clinic techs. The clinic gets all the new graduates, and the hospital has the folks who have been doing IVs at 2AM on unhappy patients for years.
Laga - Feb 09, 2011 10:10:58 am PST #15205 of 30000
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
Phlebotomists are the best. Not that I've ever had a problem. I even have a great big freckle that could be labeled "needle goes here" they should rent me out to teaching hospitals.