Here they are in pictures that tell it all:
The Good: a decent breakfast
The Bad: Two failed attempts at blood draw, these hurt
The Ugly: They had a time finding veins. They never did.
Recent hospital stay’s good, bad, and ugly
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OM Gosh, your so bruised! I hope that goes away soon, Maj. I suggest picking up a tube of Zinc Oxide cream, it makes my bruises go away much faster. The food does look good for hospital food!
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Thanks for the tip! I’ll check in to that Zinc Oxide cream for sure. They are still there but beginning to fade. The food was actually very decent.
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Yum! I hope the cream will help that huge bruise, wow!
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Thanks again, John!
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Those bruises bring back some bad memories of a bad blood drawing on me, many, many years ago. Hope you don’t ever have to go through that again!
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Sorry to dredge up bad memories for you. I did not want that for sure. Thank you for commenting.
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Oh no! I hope you heal quickly!
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The bruises are beginning to fade. (I did not show all of them, btw.) I still have a couple of painful knots, hopefully they will eventually quit hurting. Thank you for stopping by and commenting.
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So sorry your hospital did not have good Vampires! I have bad veins, they roll, they collapse, and they don’t like needles! I used to have on big vein on my wrist that I would make them use, one nurse told me, “Save that one for when you are older. I said, “I’m 60 now how much longer should I wait?” The food does look awesome! Take care and stay safe.
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HaHa…for sure these vampires were klutzy. They talked of my veins collapsing, rolling and blowing, sometimes with a gleam in their eyes it seemed.
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Reblogged this on Time Traveler on the road of Life.
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Thanks for the reblog!! 🙂
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I have a lot of sympathy for you! That looks really bad. They often have the same problem finding veins in my arms or even worse, the vein rolls and they chase it. I haven’t ever been that black and blue though.
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Yes, I think I (they) might have set some kind of record this time. Thanks for the sympathy and comment!
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thanks for sharing – the food looks indeed much better than it would round here. As for taking bloods, My veins are like that. I have had to learn to ask medical staff to let me have a real hot hand bath – then the ones on the back of my hand come up fine. One of yours looks like it might too. But you know what medical staff are like when it comes to taking advice fro a PATIENT. I am learning assertiveness and I hope you have a trick to hand, too.
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Thank you so much for that tip!!! I’ll definitely remember that. And you are so right, they do not like being told that there might be a better way.
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How awful for you! I find that in hospitals too, it’s the ones that do it day in and day out at the collection centres that are the best
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Somehow it seems I got the “C” team for my blood draws and IV installs. Thanks for sharing!
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Ouch, that doesn’t look good at all. I hate having blood drawn, unless the person doing it really knows what they are doing its a nightmare. I agree though, at least the food looked good.
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Thanks rebecca!
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You’re very welcome.
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Hope you heal up soon!
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Thank you Phill!
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Ugh!!!
I’ve had many attempted blood draws look like that. I have “difficult” veins.
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It is not fun! Been having trouble with blood draws for decades.
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I want to donate platelets, because there’s a shortage and I have a high count, but the Red Cross has asked me not to due to my vein issues. I end up clotting and it’s a waste of a lot of time and supplies.
I think I’m doing a blood donation this weekend.
I saw that there’s a great, easy, special light that clearly show veins. It’s super expensive ($1200) but it still seems like something they, and hospitals, should stock!! Esp because it can also show where the needle is… so no poking through or missing veins!
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That certainly sounds like something that should be everywhere blood is drawn or IV’s installed. Thanks for sharing! 👍😀
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I’d trade a bad blood draw for worse food!
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😂😂🍷
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Hope you heal up quickly!!
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Thank you! 😀
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Welcome! Look up Arnica for bruising. Helps a lot.
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Thank you for the tip we’ll look it up!
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Oh yeah… Arnica is amazing!!!! I keep forgetting about it.
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Gonna have to try this. Thanks.
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You bet!!!
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👍😀
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Oh my, that does not look good! They should have called the IV nurse.
Hope you are doing better!
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Yes doing better, bruises are beginning to fade. Oh, and it WAS the ER IV nurse that turned my arm black and blue. She was so-called the best.😂🤣🥲
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I have the exact same experiences!! At the Red Cross I often have 3 or 4 people giving advice. They’re always apologetic about it and I tell them I’m used to it.
To date, the record goes to an anesthesiologist when I was 6. Took TEN tries, five in each arm, to hit a vein!
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That’s a dubious honor !
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Thank gobs I have a high pain threshold!!
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Wow! Glad you are doing better.
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Thank you! The bruises are starting to fade, albeit slowly.
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That does look like a pretty decent breakfast. Nurses have trouble finding my veins too. I needed an IV for a CAT scan once, and three nurses took turns trying to find a vein.
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That sounds way to familiar! Thanks…
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Ouch. They did a job on the arm at the crease. Wow. I get little bruise dots from sloppy vampires, but wow, nothing like that. At least they gave you a decent breakfast to make up for shoddy vimpireizmo.
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It was surprisingly good.
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Ouch. That bruising is ugly indeed. I hope you’ve recovered and are well.
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Definitely on the mend, bruises are slowly beginning to fade.
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Oh no that bruising looks painful. I hope you are healing soon x
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Thank you Christy, feeling much better, and the bruises are beginning to fade. 🙂
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Eek! I hope you’re feeling better?
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Feeling much better, and the bruises are beginning to fade.
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Oh my God! I hope you are better, auch!
Pleasse take care a lot, both!
Best wishes.
Elvira.
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Thank you for your concern! Thigs are getting better day by day, and the bruises are fading.
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You are welcome, i am happy for you, thank´s for tell me, you will be like new, in few days.
Best wishes.
Elvira
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Heavens to Murgattiod! … that’s, um, impressive. 😦
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Sufferin’ succotash, I have to agree. (Bruises are beginning to fade) 😉
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🙂
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Oh no!!!!! I hope you heal fast!
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Thanks, the bruises are beginning to fade.
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Good!!!
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