just reading your initial post makes me feel slightly sick

about 5 weeks ago i went in for a full body check up and had
to let them drain off 12 (!) vials of blood.

but i always tell the nurse before she starts that i am quite
prone to fainting lol. and ask if she can tilt that chair so
that i'm lying a bit, facing the ceiling.

and then i'll just tell her "i'll be fine, really just don't
tell me what you're doing and talk to me about anything you'd
like"

that always works for me. i can simply concentrate on what is
being said and before i get all tingly it's done.

but this dumb b*tch just went "yeah well i hope you're not one
of those guys who gets sick in here. oh wait, i'm putting the
needle in right now. oh here we go, yup, first vial filling up"

and i'm like

"could you please not talk about that. just tell me anything
you can think of as long as it's nothing to do with this".

so she continues

"hey if you faint on me i'm gonna have to wake you up and we
will have to stick the needle in your other arm so stay with
me now"



great, you moronic tit

she kept this up the whole time so by the 11th vial i was on
the verge of collaps, lol.

then when she was ready and i was gathering my senses, she's
like

wait! is this a gell-vial? huh? i don't think it is!!
it should be a gell-vial.

ok, i'm gonna have to put the needle back in.

oh, no wait, it IS a gell-vial, haha.

by that time i was like " what the fuck is wrong with you, evil woman"

i generally don't like strangers poking holes in me

Not really, but a couple of months ago, the guy couldn't find a vein. I KNEW he'd have trouble, which is weird because I have good veins. I could tell by the way he inserted the needle that it just wasn't going to work. He was grinding that thing around in my arm and I almost passed out it hurt so bad.

Then the week after that, they took some blood from me for a test I needed to have done, and the woman took 10 vials of blood from me in one go! I counted.

I thought for a moment she was some nurse "imposter" and was trying to kill me for fun or something.

minneapolisgenius said:

Ugh, I hate it when they grind the needle around in your arm like that. 10 vials of blood is a lot.

I just noticed that Isten has me beat with his 12 vials though.

It must be a Dutch thing. They like to drain you.

psychodelicide said:

Yeah, and for just one test as well.

minneapolisgenius said:

Ugh.

psychodelicide said:

minneapolisgenius said:

Dang!

psychodelicide said:

I know. I thought "Damn, what the hell do you need all that for?!"

I mean, they can test for things like DNA evidence from just a pindrop, but for some reason they needed a bucketful for this one test I needed.

minneapolisgenius said:

Man!

psychodelicide said:

Maybe they were making a horror movie or something and they needed it for the effects.