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Situation:
In my late teens I had to have some blood taken from my finger tip. The nurse insisted that she take it from my left middle finger.
Problem:
In those days I was playing 5-8 hours of guitar every day. The calluses on the finger tips of my left hand were thick sheets of dead skin. I tried to tell this to the nurse but she insisted that she had to use my left hand. I guess the blood in my right hand is different...
Result:
She hammered away with her lancet again and again and again, squeezing my finger until it was blue trying to get a drop of blood to appear. Finally she took a needle and used that because it could go deeper. My finger was like chopped meat by the time she was done, all because she insisted that she had to draw from the left hand...
Observations:
There are some really stupid people on this planet in positions of authority.
Stitchawl
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