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Griff · 10-12-2020, 12:31 PM

I go for my weekly this afternoon even though we're shutting things down for a couple weeks. There is one tech or nurse at the site I go to who is brutal, the others are gentler. Luck of the draw.

Dude111 · 10-13-2020, 12:16 AM

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footfootfoot · 10-13-2020, 10:15 AM

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Originally Posted by Griff

I go for my weekly this afternoon even though we're shutting things down for a couple weeks. There is one tech or nurse at the site I go to who is brutal, the others are gentler. Luck of the draw.

Gah! Good luck. It's like with phlebotomists; some of them will carve you up real nice for a green card and others are like the tooth fairy.

glatt · 10-13-2020, 10:18 AM

re the phlebotomists, how hard can it be? I would think after half a dozen, you would have it down.

footfootfoot · 10-13-2020, 10:29 AM

Maybe they are sadists? I've heard horror stories from people with "difficult to find veins" - finally they call in the one nurse who is the vein whisperer and she gets it in one. Makes you wonder why they don't just call her first in when they see the victim has "difficult to find veins."

monster · 10-13-2020, 10:32 AM

My veins are so easy they all salivate when they see them... and yet sometimes they still fuck it up so badly I look like a dalmation for weeks!

glatt · 10-13-2020, 11:42 AM

fargon · 10-13-2020, 11:56 AM

That's a good one. As my favorite vampire would say.

Diaphone Jim · 10-13-2020, 12:18 PM

Techniques, skill level and needle size have all improved the process over the years.
Attitude, both theirs and yours, help a lot.

I have to admit that, when asked which arm I prefer, I point to theirs.

Clodfobble · 10-13-2020, 01:02 PM

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Originally Posted by footfootfoot

Maybe they are sadists? I've heard horror stories from people with "difficult to find veins" - finally they call in the one nurse who is the vein whisperer and she gets it in one. Makes you wonder why they don't just call her first in when they see the victim has "difficult to find veins."

Both Minifob and I have difficult veins (Minifobette, it seems, was spared.) They once stuck me 7 times trying to find a vein. The difficult qualities, aside from being smaller and deeper than normal, also apparently include "rolling," i.e. being so loose under the skin that they slide away from underneath the tip of the needle, and "blowing out," i.e. being so delicate that the introduction of a needle puncture causes the whole thing to tear apart. This also accounts for our easy bruising tendencies.

monster · 10-13-2020, 01:06 PM

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Originally Posted by Diaphone Jim

Techniques, skill level and needle size have all improved the process over the years.
Attitude, both theirs and yours, help a lot.

I have to admit that, when asked which arm I prefer, I point to theirs.

It doesn't bother me at all, but I do have to look away otherwise I invariably move my arm to try and "help" them. My favorite (of course) is when they say "show me your finger" for the blood ox thingy .....

.....every time.

10-12-2020, 12:31 PM	#31
Griff still says videotape Join Date: Feb 2001 Posts: 26,813	I go for my weekly this afternoon even though we're shutting things down for a couple weeks. There is one tech or nurse at the site I go to who is brutal, the others are gentler. Luck of the draw. __________________ If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you. - Louis D. Brandeis

10-13-2020, 10:29 AM	#35
footfootfoot To shreds, you say? Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: in the house and on the street-how many, many feet we meet! Posts: 18,449	Maybe they are sadists? I've heard horror stories from people with "difficult to find veins" - finally they call in the one nurse who is the vein whisperer and she gets it in one. Makes you wonder why they don't just call her first in when they see the victim has "difficult to find veins." __________________ The internet is a hateful stew of vomit you can never take completely seriously. - Her Fobs

10-13-2020, 10:32 AM	#36
monster I hear them call the tide Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Perpetual Chaos Posts: 30,852	My veins are so easy they all salivate when they see them... and yet sometimes they still fuck it up so badly I look like a dalmation for weeks! __________________ The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity Amelia Earhart

10-13-2020, 11:56 AM	#38
fargon Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: La Crosse, WI Posts: 8,924	That's a good one. As my favorite vampire would say. __________________ Annoy the ones that ignore you!!! I live a blessed life I Love my Country, I Fear the Government!!! Heavily medicated for the good of mankind.

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10-13-2020, 10:18 AM	#34
glatt ™ Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Arlington, VA Posts: 27,717	re the phlebotomists, how hard can it be? I would think after half a dozen, you would have it down.

10-13-2020, 11:42 AM	#37
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10-13-2020, 12:18 PM	#39
Diaphone Jim Junior Master Dwellar Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Northern California Posts: 2,122	Techniques, skill level and needle size have all improved the process over the years. Attitude, both theirs and yours, help a lot. I have to admit that, when asked which arm I prefer, I point to theirs.

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