My! You have such lovely veins!
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by Judi on Aug 6, 2008
This is what the nurse said to me yesterday at the hospital. I have crohns disease and had to have an abscess drained. With was little information I was given, I was left to assume this was suppose to be a simple Same Day situation.. ha.. but that’s the other story.. this is about my lovely veins.
The nurse who is going to give me a heplock so they can easily inject a sedative, tells comments on how nice my veins are. To which I busted out laughing since I’d just read vampire books, the first 3 books of the Twilight series and the night before finished Melissa De La Cruz’s Blue Bloods book.. to hear this nurse talk so lovingly about my veins was just too funny.
But given how the day had started and what it was looking like, I should have know.. I should have kept my mouth shut. But no, I had to tell her thanks and that no one, and I mean, never has anyone had a hard time getting in to my veins.. ever. She told me what a rough morning she’d had.. I did knock on wood.. but it wasn’t enough.
She stuck me in the wrist, which was terrible.. and looking at things now, she wasn’t even close! Then she said she should have just done it in my hand where she first thought…. so she pokes me there and my vein blows out.. Now I have a huge purple green bruise on my hand. So she switches to the other hand and finally gets it.
Tells me that after the procedure they’ll put a warm compress on it to help keep it from bruising worse (um.. hey.. it’ll be a while, why not a warm compress now?.. one for my hand, one for my pain?). Never did get a warm compress. I should have known the rest of the day was going to be crummy.
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