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things NOT to do with a patient
Posted On: 04/18/2008 13:48:24
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wow today was a traumatic experience. It was my schools day to have a blood drive, and like I always do, I signed up to donate blood. I wasn't worried b/c I have do it a bunch of times before today, but today was different. The nurse who was working with me was new and this was her first time. After spending what seemed like an eternity of her trying to find my vein and my arm going numb fromt he rubber thing on it, she finally got the needle ready. Right as she was about to stick me she said these exact words "I can't tell if this is a vein or a tendon"!! I told her she needed a second opinion before she stuck me. Once she got a second opinion and she decided to stick me i knew something was wrong immediately. All of a sudden my arm started to hurt and then she hollared for the "big guy" on the bus. He came over and got really mad at her b/c my vein had collapsed. He started to feel around and all of a sudden the sharpest pain I have ever felt shot through my arm. It took all the strength I could muster to not hit the dude and run out!! Finally they got the needle in my vein and i was in so much pain and scared from what just happened i started to cry. Once iI composed myself, and the whole thing was almost over i started to get light headed and all of a sudden i PASSED OUT!!! I never do that with needles or blood!!! So, in conclusion I have decided that if the lady would have never said "I can't tell if this is a vein or a tendon" (which completely freaked me out) I would have been fine throughout the whole thing!!!!
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