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
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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 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 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 donated blood for the first time, and all the nurses kept complimenting on how good my veins were. That's the nicest thing anyone has said to me in the past 2 months. FML
Today, my nurse girlfriend told me she's more attracted to the veins in my arm than any other part of me. FML
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 needed to get blood drawn. Apparently, my veins are too thin and no blood would flow into the tube. I'm afraid of needles, and was just poked with some unsuccessfully, and I have to go back next week to try again. FML
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
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, as a nursing student, I needed to take a blood sample from someone and the veins on his arms weren't really easy to draw blood from. I asked him, "Can I please look at your legs?" It turns out he was amputated. 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
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howsthisforaname 34
I'm needle phobic. If they don't hit the vein on the first try I demand a different nurse.
kdm_km1 19
Maybe she needlealittle practice.
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aww_knuts 5
I feel for you OP, the nurse should have never tried 5 times, usually after 2 attempts, some one else should try. For the record, as a nurse, the bigger and more pronounced the vein, the more typical to roll though.
goldfish78 11
Practice makes it perfect.
Relf 19
Your bitching about a nurse not getting after 5 times on your arm? Please. You dont know pain till you've been stuck so many times in your lifetime that they have to go for other spots like your feet, thigh, and neck. Nowadays id be happy if it only took5
BeepBeepSwerve 9
we got a badass over here.....NOT!
juliakate121 7
I had a needle go through my vein, the nurse didn't take it out, instead she dug around in my arm till it straightened out..
PeterPansGirl 12
That happened to me when I was donating blood for the second time. She said my veins were "ready", then she missed multiple times. She wriggled the needle while it was inside. Then since she couldn't do it on that arm, she went on to the other one.
TheBurdenOfLife 9
Don't you hate when "professionals" do that?
Jenniclementine 8
This one time, a trainee was told to take blood. She stabbed my left arm eleven times and right twelve. An experienced nurse then had to rip her off of me while the trained yelled like a three year old, "No, stop! I can do it!"
punk_cowboi 5
Heroin addicts have better aim
jthmtwin 16
My home town hospital has a 4 stick rule, if they don't bit after 4 times they send you home and tell you to come back in two days. My veins are near impossible to hit, so I always ask for the most experience nurse. Try it next time :)
MischievousSoul 8
Well... don't feel too bad. Last time I was at the hospital, I ended up getting stuck with a needle nine times(literally, I actually counted), by about four different people. They got the IV in on the fifth time but when I went for the CAT scan, it messed up. So guess who got stuck four more times, and without success? I know your pain, OP, I know your pain.