BLOOD TEST!!!

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this is in the anime version of Wicked City, only it's not a pair of jaws, per se, but...

I had blood taken t'other day (liver is playing up). I dunno what the nurse did wrong, but my arm was SO SORE afterwards (even tho the needle didnt hurt at all), and then it started to bruise... and bruise... all up and down the veins... I now look like I'm in Requiem for a Dream or something! Its cool, in a macabre sorta way. As long as they dont tie me down and cut my arm off to the strains of Kronos Quartet or anything, that is.

Anyway the first time I went to my gyno and this happened I passed out. That got put in my file and now everytime I go another nurse comes in to stand by me, the put an arm rest thing in front of me, ask if i'd rather lay down,etc. All of that makes me more nervous and increases the chance of fainting!

so yeah. . i hate giving blood.

She bruised the hell out of me, too. Or maybe that was me actually.

But she also says I used to race to eat my ice cream as fast as possible because I loved brain freeze, and I have no memory of that.

Perhaps there is a reason for that, though.

Hopefully you'll get one of the GOOD blood-drawers. DON'T watch them do it. Hope it goes OK!!!

yeah I don't get my fainting thing really. I can sit four hours for a tattoo with no problem!

Ahahahahaha! Damn you, now I am too.

Word up.

I had to have a lot of blood taken the other day and was thinking about it a lot beforehand. I had a dream the night before about getting an IV put in, only the IV tube thing that they thread into the vein was like a foot long, and it was put in wrong and so the nurse had to rip it out.

My blood draw was not that dramatic, thankfully. I was talking to the nurse about her patients that freak out and she said that sometimes she had people who would bite and scream and thrash and stuff. In her experience, men freaked out more than women. I suppose women have to see their own blood a hell of a lot more often, and are more desensitized to such things...

Ow ow ow ow ow. Barbaric. I think the massive blood tests where they draw multiple phials of blood from you and don't let you eat for 12 hours beforehand are just to placify difficult patients and make them too weak to do anything except shut up because you are now hungry and you have NO BLOOD LEFT.

it's not that bad, most of the pain is psychosomatic imo. and at least you didn't have someone waking you up at 530am everyday to take it. and then they do it in the same spot so often that they "lose the vein" w/the needle already in you and have to find a new one.

I have been in that position. However, when I was in that position, they just left a catheter in my arm so they could get at my blood more easily. (Also, there was a drip going in, so it was kind of like a Keith Richards style blood exchange process.)

When I used to have to get blood tests every week my veins used to roll about so much that it could take 10 minutes to get at one. I was quite impressed the dude got blood out of me so quickly. I was expecting to be there clenching my fist and grimacing for a lot longer.

Oh man, 10 minutes, that must've sucked. Waiting for it to happen just gives you time to dread it. I have to have them weekly for at least a month. Worst part is trying to find the time to have it done w/o missing work.