I don’t understand this need to fix what
isn’t broken.
Three, maybe four years ago, it may have been
longer, I noticed when I went for blood tests that the doctors now instead of
taking it from the middle of the inside elbow they were tackling it from closer
to the top edge (of the inside elbow). It hurts taking it
from there.
Come to find out that some people have
problems with it being taken from the good old veins in the middle soft fleshy
center area of the bend in the elbow.
That’s all fine and good but NOT everybody has that problem. So why is it when it affects some, EVERYBODY
has to have it changed.
I asked the nurse one day (and without
going into detail she is crap at it) why she is taking blood on that outside
edge instead of the fleshy middle like they used to do. She said it was because of
having to hold down or push down or something to hold the veins. Well really! The things aren’t set in cement,
they are round like pipes and well if you don’t hold the tube (vein) still when
you try to pierce it, it is gonna try to move out of the way.
Now this last blood test (referenced
above) by a nurse was pretty disturbing. She couldn’t find a blood filled
vein in my right arm (on the outside edge of course). After the third jab with the needle, when my
flesh refused to give up any of the red stuff, she left the needle in and
started fishing for a vein that way. I mean, thirty second ( and I am talking a
good thirty seconds – ok maybe twenty but it might have been an hour for how it
felt) I waited watching and trying to make light of a rather embarrassing for
her, situation.
She had a training nurse in there and
perhaps that made her nervous – I felt I was going to be sick. But give me a
break, there must be blood somewhere in my body because my heart is
beating. Watching a needle fishing
around inside my flesh was creepy, let alone how it felt. I finally had to ask
her. “Can you quit moving the needle around in my arm that hurts. She stopped
and paused and I then had to ask her. “Can you take it out it does not seem to
be working.”
If someone on the street had attempted
that I would have returned the pleasure in some defensive way, a reaction which
was only natural. Instead, I had to let
her have a go at the other arm. She must have hit a nerve or something in the
left arm. Probably just brushed it because nerves don’t take much to upset
them. For two hours –no exaggeration this time – it strung like alcohol on an
open cut, where she stuck me. Finally proved I was alive by retrieving an
adequate amount of red stuff so I could get out of there.
I was livid. I get upset as most normal people
would, when stupidity makes me suffer unnecessarily. I get livid at myself or
others, makes no difference, except when it is I being stupid I can do
something about it. Why did they change
their style of blood drawing for everyone when the old way worked fine for
many? Why not give people a choice. It is
an annoying thing to have done at the very least let us have a say in it.
What is the real need to make changes to what everyone recieves, when the problem lies with only a few. My Guess - Somebody had too much
time on their hands and needed to show how important their overpaid position was
in the medical community so, they did a study and found a few people that had problems with the old
method of drawing blood. Wallah! We will
just change it for everybody!!! This will make me feel important.
Any way why is all this seemingly important to me at the moment?
I am scheduled for a blood test in a few hours. I forgot to stress to the front office lady, I wanted my doctor to do it (doctors don’t do it, so I have been told but my doctor does, so I usually see him and he is pretty good at vampiring my blood out of me). So if they have me scheduled to see the nurse I am going to cancel it (even if it means I have to starve another morning for this no food consumed blood test). Rather starve again than have to brave the Neanderthal for a second round.
