Flu jabs & blood tests

It does a little bit but then people are strange. One of the nurses told me that a patient sued them because they had a sticking plaster applied to them and then claimed to be allergic to them.

I had my 6 monthly blood test on Tuesday and the nurse, who I have known for 25 years was visibly shaking. It takes a toughie diabetic to allow her to continue in that condition. All I had to do was synchronise with her and we succeeded nicely.

 

lol my blood refuses to come out, it takes forever to do blood tests......now if I sued for every bruise......

 

Good grief!

I get a rash from plaster sticky stuff.

So I weigh the pros and cons;

• one square inch of rash on the inside of my elbow, lasting 2 days
• or risk of one tiny drop of blood inside my sleeve
• Lengthy court case, cost of legal representation and paying costs when the judge dismisses due to entire ridiculousness of case.

As you can tell, it's a terrible and agonising decision that takes me half a millisecond to resolve.

Edited to add: sorry @Sara J , I was so stunned by the Squire's post I forgot to say welcome!

 

Having blood taken can be a trial. My veins seem to have vanished as I have gotten older. So, it can be a trial while they try to find one. On one occasion, a doctor tried both arms and the back of both hands until I said, enough was enough and got referred to the blood service at the local hospital. I waited a day or so to at least to give the bruises some time to wear down a bit.

My spouse was in hospital last year. The nurses at the hospital were trying to get canulers into her to allow blood tests and also to dispense medication. They made a real mess of it and they had to bring in a specialist nurse to A&E to put them in. After five days in she had one in each arm and one each in the back of each hand and very colourful it was. We complained to the hopsital about their inability to do this, basic nursing task to be told that nurses are not expected to take blood routinely and that it's a specialist skill??? They had to be trained separately from their normal role for it. What we couldn't understand was why people working in A&E didn't have this specialist training? Surely, this is one of the first things they do for most people who come in there?

 

Hi Sara J welcome, short answer yes, when I was younger I used to do Plasma For Rhesus contributions every six weeks at the local hospital as I have rare antibodies (anti little c) which are used for Rhesus problems in babies and mums, and because of that my elbow veins are shot, so now they use butterfly needles in my ankles, not as painful as it sounds, but sometimes the hole can leak and it can be funny seeing peoples faces as I drip blood across the floor as I walk.

 

Having blood taken can be a trial. My veins seem to have vanished as I have gotten older. So, it can be a trial while they try to find one. On one occasion, a doctor tried both arms and the back of both hands until I said, enough was enough and got referred to the blood service at the local hospital. I waited a day or so to at least to give the bruises some time to wear down a bit.

My spouse was in hospital last year. The nurses at the hospital were trying to get canulers into her to allow blood tests and also to dispense medication. They made a real mess of it and they had to bring in a specialist nurse to A&E to put them in. After five days in she had one in each arm and one each in the back of each hand and very colourful it was. We complained to the hopsital about their inability to do this, basic nursing task to be told that nurses are not expected to take blood routinely and that it's a specialist skill??? They had to be trained separately from their normal role for it. What we couldn't understand was why people working in A&E didn't have this specialist training? Surely, this is one of the first things they do for most people who come in there?

 

Well Sara, I'm a type 1 so have to inject multiple times a day and I hate it when anyone comes near me with a needle, needle phobia is a real condition and many people struggle even just to take life-saving drugs such as insulin, so sorry I don't share your frustration and feel sorry for those who have genuine fear of needles.

 

Strangely its the jabs that dentist give in the gums that I hate, just the sight of that long needle coming towards my mouth gives me the heebie geebies, and my son hates to see me give myself my jabs and will run a mile if I go anywhere near him with a needle in my hand, so what will happen if he ever needs a jab I dread to think he already takes valium for a visit to the dentist.