[zelda_pinwheel]

Originally Posted by Moejoe

Urgghhh! I hate that too, and anything medical being done to me. It's not just the needle, but the smell of it all, the whole horrible experience. That antiseptic, bleached out smell of doctor's rooms. The crinkle of disposable paper as you sit on it, the blank, off-white walls, the heavy wood doors. The waiting rooms with disposable plastic chairs and pamphlets on diseases. *shivers*

Hope everything goes well with your blood tests, and here's a gigantic toblerone to take away the sicky feeling:

thank you for the chocolate. that will definitely help. actually the labo i go to is not so bad, at least in the waiting room ; it's pretty antiseptic, but they have a gigantic aquarium filled with all kinds of exotic fish. i like aquariums.

Originally Posted by Sparrow

To evade one's work or duty, especially through laziness.

Really Am should have provided the definition as she used the word, but she must be skiving.

good thing you're not skiving off too, sparrow. thanks for the definition.

Originally Posted by dreams

Aw, Zelda, I feel for you. I hate having blood drawn! When they do blood glucose tests, I have to have blood drawn every half hour for 5 hours so they can do a chart. (Which makes it worse, as I'm not allowed to eat.)

poor baby !! you have my utmost sympathy. i feel like a bit of a baby complaining about mine now (not that that will stop me. )

Here's some more and I'll send a big bar of chocolatethat it is over. Sorry about the chocolate.. I started thinking about having blood drawn and I had to eat the chocolate..

perfectly understandable. in the circumstances, i think you need it more than i do.

I hope the rest of the day is much better.

meh. the rest of the day was very hectic and involved a lot of running around and errands. tomorrow will probably be the same. oh well, i did get quite a lot done, so that's good (not everything i needed to though...).

Originally Posted by ShortNCuddlyAm

Indeed - evading my duty to MR by doing my work.

Originally Posted by devilsadvocate

It's also a manufacturing process wherein a layer of material is taken off a length of hose so a coupler can be fitted.

I like Am's version better

yours is nice too, although i doubt i'll have as many opportunties to use it as am's.

Originally Posted by nomesque

Ha - now that's one of the benefits of spending a fair chunk of one's childhood in hospitals! Needles don't bother me a bit... unless they're in my spine... *shudder* Or unless they're regular heparin shots, because those things can leave a bruise the size of a grapefruit, and daft medical students will try to put the next one in the SAME DAMN SPOT!!!

arg ! stop it !

Zelda, I think you need a chocolate croissant and a large coffee, stat!

actually, a large café au lait is precisely what i had as soon as i got home. no chocolate croissant but i did have 2 slices of toast with butter (that's my usual breakfast). and a glass of juice first, to get my blood sugar up so i didn't pass out waiting for the coffee.

Originally Posted by wodin

Having taken Warfarin for a couple of years (thank God that’s over), I’m no stranger to blood draws. But I needed to have my hemoglobin checked the other week, and they assigned me a tech who was obviously in training.

I have very prominent veins, and blood draws are usually quite painless for me; but this one HURT! And she missed the vein! She panicked, and called a more qualified tech in to assist. This one pulled the needle out half way, re-oriented it towards the vein and stuck it back in. Wallah! The blood flowed and quickly filled the vial. I’m amazed that I didn’t get a huge hematoma from it.

gaaa ! horrible. i look a bit like a junkie at the moment as i've got two lovely bruises (particularly the side the guy kept pressing on), and it's a bit sore, but it could be worse. the last time one of my friends gave blood (donated, not for a test) i don't know how they managed it but he had a huge bruise that covered almost his entire arm !