Today, I got my annual blood test. The nurse was inexperienced and it took her several tries to insert the needle properly. When I get back home, my fiancé starts yelling at me and storms out. The reason? I am a recovering drug addict and my arm appeared as if I had been shooting up. FML
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Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, I decided to give blood for the second time. I felt excrutiating pain when she stuck the needle in my arm. Another nurse came running over in a panic. Apparently my inexperienced nurse had put it in my tendon instead of my vein. FML
Today, I went for bloodwork. It's routine for me, so I was ready for the nurse to put in the needle and take my blood. It went in fine, but right after, she slowly pulled the needle out, then wondered why the blood stopped. She then moved it back and forth in my arm while I panicked silently. FML
Today, I had to go to the hospital to get blood taken. The nurse mentioned how pronounced and easy to see my veins are. I guess that explains why she missed five times in a row. I'm surprised my arm doesn't look like a heroin addict's right now. FML
Today, I went to get my blood drawn to see how far along I am pregnant. The lady stuck both my arms twice and then busted a vein in my right arm. She told me to come back tomorrow to try again. FML
Today, I had to get bloodwork done. I'm deathly afraid of needles. The whole lobby heard me scream as soon as the nurse said 'hello'. FML
Today, my needle-phobic mother took me to get a shot. She fainted. FML
Today, I went to the blood bank to donate plasma. All went well until the machine went to return my red blood cells. It turns out the nurse sliced my vein and the blood built up in my tissues. I now have a massive swollen arm and bruising, and look like a junkie. FML
Today, I went to the doctor to get a blood test and I started crying when I saw the needle. I planned on becoming a doctor. FML
Today, I went to a blood drive. The nurse taking my blood mentioned that she'd been called in on her day off, and she swore she wasn't drunk. I didn't know what to do, so I just smiled and blinked back tears as she savaged the vein in my arm. FML
Today, I had to give a 63 year old man a shot. He started bawling before I even brought out the needle. I tried to get him calm down. Then he grabbed the needle, threw it at me and ran out the door. FML
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HumansSuck 0
Hey, at least you're recovering and you have a fiance. That's good. Your life is good.
michcb 0
whoops. well you can always explain. (:
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Comments (105)
saailaway 0
dude its not the nurse's fault. You don't start as a pro nurse, it takes time.
cucuto89 0
ydi for not opening your mouth and saying, "I was at the doctors" Use your words honey
jazz2dasmith 0
recovering drug addicts are misconceived to lie and and its not that easy to try to explain when they storm out fucktard
csnhnsnmrs 0
standard procedure dictates that after she fails the second time, she should bring in a second person to attempt the drawing of blood. So it is her fault for being really bad at drawing blood.
lucky0514 0
ugh that sucks :( i'm sorry girl
zrhcrx 0
That really sucks, but give the nurse a break. People complain about student nurses having a hard time getting an IV started. They think it's because that nurse is just stupid, but never come to realize that starting an IV is really hard and can be harder if you don't have good veins, which you wouldn't since you use to use drugs.
PimpDaddyT 0
the nurse wasn't bad. you have collapsed veins from years of shooting up. drugs do BAD things to your body you know
0___0 9
Hahaha that was funny. and I HATE getting the "nurses in training" when I get my blood taken. THEY ALWAYS mess up and have to get help from another one anyway! Then my arm hurts even more. ;( It makes the experience twice as bad.
beckyb 0
If you have terrible experiences with having blood taken, ask politely to have an experienced phlebotomist draw your blood. No one HAS to let a student give it a try. When I was being trained there were plenty of people who politely declined having me draw them for whatever reason.
janie197 0
Um, this wouldn't happen. You get a bandage over the site where your blood was taken so your fiance wouldn't be able to see how many puncture wounds there were...
PinkSpiderFelix 0
You get a bandaid, which you can take off whenever you like really. It'd be easy to just take it off and for the fiance to see the puncture marks.
fmllolfml 0
Its not the nurses fault lol when someone is a drug addict its harder for even a trained nurse to find their vein. So, I would kind of say its your fault for being a drug addict in the first place that got you into this situation. Dont put the blame on others.
suztheass 0
The OP didn't say anything about the nurse..the commenters did >_>
fmllolfml 0
read it again she called the nurse inexperienced just because she couldn't get the needle in her vein.
marcyang 5
hey. it is not the nurse's problem. drug addicts' blood vessels are notoriously difficult.