I mean, really? I'm a healthy twenty-eight year old female in for a routine lab draw. If you were a newbie I would shrug my shoulders. In fact, I'd volunteer to let you practice on me, but when you start cracking jokes about how, "I've done a million of these and have never felt a thing," then I assume you're making light of it all since it's second nature by now. I don't expect you to jab the butterfly needle into my arm and though the gigantic vein at nearly a ninety degree angle. Good Lord woman, where did you learn to draw? Carpentry school?
Now I hate needles as much as the next person (yes, yes, oh the irony, blah, blah), but I've learned to more or less control myself. I don't scream and flail about anymore... on the outside. But today I nearly lost it. I don't know, something about the whole staff being sick, nobody washing hands at all, and general incompetence. Are these people for real? The mind, it boggles.
All I have to say is that the bruise better be gone by the wedding!
I had a similar experience when I had my 12 week blood draw (a lovely 9 viles collected). The lady kept telling me how crummy my veins were. She poked my right arm twice and left arm once to get a good spot (leaving ugly bruises), and she kept jerking the needle around the whole time she filled the viles.
ReplyDeleteAs a regular blood donor, I've always been told I have great veins (and the blood bank uses a much bigger needle!) I was so po'd by the time I left there. A few weeks later I had to have more blood drawn and I was assigned to the same lady, but I asked that someone else do my blood draw, I didn't want her near my veins.
Good luck with the bruise! I hope it heals quickly :-)
Wow, that's even worse. Veins on pregnant women are usually the size of garden hoses! Sorry you had to go through that, but I'm glad you said something to them next time :)
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