Garry A
Calibrating.....
- Location
- Grangemouth
Safe.
Alarming words
- Thread starter anothersam
- Start date
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swee'pea99
Legendary Member
"This may hurt a little"
deptfordmarmoset
Full time tea drinker
- Location
- Armonmy Way
Don't take this personally, but....
byegad
Legendary Member
- Location
- NE England
'Boris is the new prime minister.'
I wasn't worried at first, but after I stopped laughing, the guy said:-
'No, really!'
I wasn't worried at first, but after I stopped laughing, the guy said:-
'No, really!'
oldwheels
Legendary Member
- Location
- Isle of Mull
This may sting a little or alternatively just a little scratch. This means brace yourself this is going to hurt.
I notice somebody has just got in before me on this one.
I notice somebody has just got in before me on this one.
ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
"Colin - is there any chance that you might be pregnant?"
(I understood the obscure joke, but my anxious sister didn't. Pregnant women can get false positive results in blood tests for clotting. Maybe my moobs had confused the A&E doctor...?)
(I understood the obscure joke, but my anxious sister didn't. Pregnant women can get false positive results in blood tests for clotting. Maybe my moobs had confused the A&E doctor...?)
ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
In more innocent times it used to be "You will just feel a little prick..." but the nursing training must have changed because they all say 'scratch' now!
Ha ha - I can vouch for that. I have to have regular blood tests to make sure that I am getting the correct dose of warfarin. For the first few years this required a venous sample. (Nowadays, thankfully, they use a machine which only requires a drop of blood from a fingerprick. Er, fingerscratch...?)
Most nurses are very good at it and it doesn't hurt too much but one in particular was bloody awful... (pun intended!). The needle went in and it really did hurt. A LOT! Then it hurt some more. And more still. After a few more stabs, I couldn't take it any more...
CJ: "What are you doing? That hurts a lot!"
Nurse: "Sorry, I can't find the vein..."
Stab, stab, stab, twist and stab, pull out, restab, restab and retwist...
I started to go a bit whoozy...
CJ: "STOP! If you carry on using me as a human pincushion then I will probably end up fain..."
And then I DID! I came round with the now anxious stabber, another nurse, and a hastily summoned GP fussing over me. I got put in a wheelchair and shipped off to a side room to recover.
I was very nervous for the next few blood tests but most of the nurses knew what they were doing and/or were wearing their glasses so they could see what they were doing. But then I got nurse stabber again. Maybe she had just been unlucky to miss the vein last time...?
But no... Stab, stab, stab, twist and stab, pull out, restab, restab and retwist...
FFS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I became like Pavlov's dog on tests after that. A sigh of relief if it were a different nurse, but heart pounding and a dry mouth as soon as nurse stabber appeared!
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It does appear to be an learnt art that some do not master, but get a good one & it's almost painless, run for the hills if a Doctor suggests they take it.
All uphill
Still rolling along
- Location
- Somerset
"We need to have a little chat"
cyberknight
As long as I breathe, I attack.
- Location
- Land of confusion
Mrs Ck`s veins have collapsed due to chemo, she has a real fun time when she has to have blood tests
ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
Oh dear...
(I promise that this is my final reference to clots/needles for today!)
Having confirmed that I definitely was not pregnant and therefore almost certainly was clotting (see above), I was admitted to hospital overnight to have scans first thing next morning. I was exhausted from stress and a very late night but found it difficult to get to sleep in a busy hospital environment, patients being moved around, nurses talking down the corridor, machines whirring and beeping... I was finally just dozing off when an insect landed on my arm. I was too tired to look, and it was dark anyway so I wouldn't have seen it. Probably just a fly or moth... OR A GIANT HORNET!!!! Sudden stabbing pain in my right arm! FFS. I felt the insect crawl about again and went to swat it and found a doctor fumbling about with my arm.
You couldn't make this up...
CJ: What are you doing!!!
Doctor: I'm sorry, I didn't mean to wake you. I thought I could take a blood sample while you were asleep.
CJ: Nobody can have needles stuck in their arm and not wake up!
She tried again. More pain. Even if she knew what she was doing she couldn't see what she was doing! In the end she gave up and decided to trust the original test.
