It really doesn't help when the nurse who's doing it is incompitant too. When i say, "Hey, i don't think you tied the rubber band on my arm tight enough to pop a vein in my arm," pretending i didn't say anything and then moving on to try and dig for a vein in my hand with the needle because, "I just can't find a vien in your arm there!" isn't exactly going to warm my heart. If you've ever had blood drawn from the back of your hand before, you know it's not pleasant.
So then after finally finding a vein in my hand and sticking me she's not able to get enough blood through there so she gives me this nasty look and says, "You know, you really need to drink more water before coming and getting blood taken. Anyways, i'm gonna go find someone else to try and get some blood from you." It was all i could do not to strangle her. The other FOUR TIMES this month i've had to have fairly large amounts of blood drawn for various testing the nurse doing the draw was able to find a vein in my right arm instantly.
So anyways, i then get moved to another station while she goes to find someone else who'll come and go all vampire on my ass. After another 15 minutes this old black grandmother comes in and i think to myself, "Fuck ya, this'll be quick now," and it was. She ties the rubberband thing around my arm like she's trying to squeeze it off and takes all of .0001 seconds before going, "Ya, there's a big on." She then proceeds to ram the needle in (not pleasant) and draw off about 6-7 good sized vials of blood.
To top all this off, since i've started the fast (Which is going well in case you were wondering. Lost 11lbs since i started last week.) i'm not supposed to get much blood drawn because my energy levels are in the shitter. So right now i'm sitting in my chair shaking and feeling like i just drank enough for a decent buzz and rambling incoherently.
Oh, and since i'm being reffered to the Hemo-wtfever specialists (vampires) for more tests i can expect even MORE blood being drawn for the same tests because they don't like relying on lab tech results and would rather do stuff in house. To top it off, if the inflammation test comes back negative i'm gonna have to have a bone marrow byopsy from either my chest plate or hip to see whether or not i have leukimia.
So i'm feeling like shit today.
Of course, this is true to almost any industry, but a far more frequent occurrence in the field of medicine.
nnioR~ Nny fucked around with this message on 07-09-2004 at 11:24 PM.
