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josh

never trust a junkie.

So I was pretty happy with Dr. Fazul... Until I took the bandaid off of where they took my blood.

I've never had ANY shot or blood collection or anything leave a mark like THAT. Ben says it's like something from Requiem For A Dream. It looks a lot grosser up close.

I hope my arm doesn't rot off.

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[ posted by josh at 08/27/2003 01:00:48 PM ]
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mary [email] said at 1:20 PM 08-27-2003:
I'd hit that.

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craig [email] said at 1:35 PM 08-27-2003:
Just be sure to pull of the scab first.

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andy [email] said at 2:23 PM 08-27-2003:
Oh, Requiem for a Dream seriously fucked me up for days.

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Emmaleigh said at 2:39 PM 08-27-2003:
me too.

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Michael said at 2:42 PM 08-27-2003:
totally. definite mental scarring.

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milky [email] said at 2:51 PM 08-27-2003:
ditto

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courtney [email] said at 3:17 PM 08-27-2003:
One of my friends recently became a R.N. Another friend has been a paramedic for ten or so years. Mr. Paramedic let Mr. R.N. practice starting IV's on him... and used the full range of needle gauges. Lots of bloody gauze later, Mr. R.N. felt comfortable with IV insertion.

How Mr. Paramedic could stand this, I dunno.

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Emmaleigh said at 3:22 PM 08-27-2003:
your friends frighten me.

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Broken On The Rick said at 4:55 PM 08-27-2003:
It really is just a little sting.

I guess it is made worse if one watches it closely and/or if one is already a "hard stick" and the person putting in the catheter has to dig around a bit.

I confess I found it spooky watching my blood flow out into the bag whenever I gave blood.

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Michael said at 5:03 PM 08-27-2003:
we used to go give plasma in baton rouge when we were broke, at that place down highland. i always felt like a junkie. especially when i took the money straight to BK for the $.99 whopper, extra lettuce and pickles. tried to give plasma one time during finals after staying awake for a couple of days on ritalin, passed straight out. Didn't go back after that.

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Ricky Horror said at 5:06 PM 08-27-2003:
I used to try and be very macho about it. I would stare very hard at the person stabbing me with the catheter.

One day, though, one of my fellow students had put the tourniquet on too loose and my veins were just not standing up enough. So he dug and dug looking for one. In fairness to him, he did offer to take it out but I told him, "Just stay in until you hit it." Then I passed out.

I no longer watch while I am being poked.

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gen [email] said at 9:25 PM 08-27-2003:
Yeah - same here. First time I had blood tests done, they needed 3 blood samples at 20 minute intervals (to check hormone levels), and it took the nurse three tries on two arms just to get a vein for the first blood sample collection - by the third try I was feeling really faint so they took me to lie down and told me to look away. The more experienced nurse got the 2 other samples without any difficulty. Needless to say I looked like a junkie with track marks on both arms for a few days after that.

To this day I have never given blood - I lived in the UK for 5 months in 1998, so I am barred from giving blood until they come up with a quick screening test for Mad Cow prions in humans.

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courtney [email] said at 1:23 AM 08-28-2003:
It's not just a little sting when someone's learning to stick a needle! 6 times, man, 6 needles he tried inserting, and dug around with a few of 'em.

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gribble [ url ]
said at 6:28 PM 08-27-2003:
Hematoma!

S'not a big deal. Just ugly for a coupla weeks.

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andrew d said at 9:35 PM 08-27-2003:
i'd think twice about going back to dr. fazul.

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schuyler said at 12:15 AM 08-28-2003:
I was told by a nurse recently, that's the advantage of having (vericose) close-to-the-surface veins. I've never had any nasties after blood is drawn

...it makes heroin so much easier

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