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RE: What's everyone up to right now?
July 6, 2022 at 11:22 pm
(July 6, 2022 at 10:50 pm)arewethereyet Wrote: (July 6, 2022 at 10:31 pm)Fireball Wrote: BTDT. When I was in Boot Camp, one time the "Corpsman" went into one arm, poking around a few times (9, by my count) and switched to the other arm (I lost count) and finally got blood. I looked like an addict, what with all the bruising.  And in those days I was skinny as a rail and my veins were quite obvious.
A couple years ago I was sent to a lab to have multiple tubes of blood drawn. The tech came in the room and had nails about and inch or an inch and a half long. I thought...oh no, this is not going to go well. I can't do a thing with long nails. She got every tube of blood needed with a stick I didn't even feel and it didn't even leave a bruise. I was amazed. I guess I will wait till the girl who always decorates her space with themed rubber ducks gets back from vacation...or they can send me back to the girl with the nails.
To add to my frustration, the lab tech today had his mask well below his nose. COVID is climbing in Dallas county again...if I get sick, I am going to hold him down and draw his blood. 
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RE: What's everyone up to right now?
July 7, 2022 at 12:09 am
(July 6, 2022 at 11:22 pm)Fireball Wrote: (July 6, 2022 at 10:50 pm)arewethereyet Wrote: A couple years ago I was sent to a lab to have multiple tubes of blood drawn. The tech came in the room and had nails about and inch or an inch and a half long. I thought...oh no, this is not going to go well. I can't do a thing with long nails. She got every tube of blood needed with a stick I didn't even feel and it didn't even leave a bruise. I was amazed. I guess I will wait till the girl who always decorates her space with themed rubber ducks gets back from vacation...or they can send me back to the girl with the nails.
To add to my frustration, the lab tech today had his mask well below his nose. COVID is climbing in Dallas county again...if I get sick, I am going to hold him down and draw his blood.
Please don't make the local police yell, "Drop that knife!". One Valkyrie is enough.
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RE: What's everyone up to right now?
July 7, 2022 at 12:10 am
(July 6, 2022 at 10:50 pm)arewethereyet Wrote: (July 6, 2022 at 10:31 pm)Fireball Wrote: BTDT. When I was in Boot Camp, one time the "Corpsman" went into one arm, poking around a few times (9, by my count) and switched to the other arm (I lost count) and finally got blood. I looked like an addict, what with all the bruising. And in those days I was skinny as a rail and my veins were quite obvious.
A couple years ago I was sent to a lab to have multiple tubes of blood drawn. The tech came in the room and had nails about and inch or an inch and a half long. I thought...oh no, this is not going to go well. I can't do a thing with long nails. She got every tube of blood needed with a stick I didn't even feel and it didn't even leave a bruise. I was amazed. I guess I will wait till the girl who always decorates her space with themed rubber ducks gets back from vacation...or they can send me back to the girl with the nails.
To add to my frustration, the lab tech today had his mask well below his nose. COVID is climbing in Dallas county again...if I get sick, I am going to hold him down and draw his blood.
Remember, cut WITH the vein, not across it.
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RE: What's everyone up to right now?
July 7, 2022 at 3:30 am
Predator duty, again. Puppies love it.
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RE: What's everyone up to right now?
July 7, 2022 at 4:17 am
(July 7, 2022 at 3:30 am)The Grand Nudger Wrote: Predator duty, again. Puppies love it.
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RE: What's everyone up to right now?
July 7, 2022 at 8:55 am
I've been having a lot of bruising and redness from my vein sticks at the plasma center. They've got a bunch of new people and I don't think they're as good as the people they've had.
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RE: What's everyone up to right now?
July 7, 2022 at 9:15 am
(July 7, 2022 at 8:55 am)Angrboda Wrote: I've been having a lot of bruising and redness from my vein sticks at the plasma center. They've got a bunch of new people and I don't think they're as good as the people they've had.
Giving blood for routine bloodwork is a challenge for me and always has been. I can't imagine trying to donate. I am super copperative, my veins are so very not cooperative. I have run into some people who are very good and I know that they are spectacular at what they do because if they can hit one of my veins and get enough before it collapses...they have some skillz.
I appreciated the fact that the first tech yesterday checked around and bailed because she knew she would miss. The nurse told me the first time she tried to draw my blood that she never misses...well, now she's 0 for 2. sigh
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RE: What's everyone up to right now?
July 7, 2022 at 1:32 pm
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RE: What's everyone up to right now?
July 7, 2022 at 5:31 pm
Glarg. I recorded the serial numbers for 11 hard disks, but as far as I can figure, I only have nine. I suppose I could have returned two. I'm pretty sure I returned one. I just don't remember. Time to take inventory again.
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RE: What's everyone up to right now?
July 8, 2022 at 10:06 pm
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