Amen to the invention. I have the wee little veins and blood pressure that drops into the thirties when I haven't eaten for more than six hours or so. Summer before last, I went in for some blood sugar testing -- eighteen hours of fasting followed by twelve vials of blood over six hours. By the end of it, they were taking blood from the back of my hand, and two nurses were holding me down. XD
All of which is a roundabout way of saying: the only non-sucky blood-drawing experience I ever had was with the Red Cross, where the nurse took one look at my BP reading and told me to go eat a ginormous lunch, drink two glasses of water, then come back. She got a big vein and a full bag of blood on the first try.
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Date: 2008-01-08 11:23 pm (UTC)All of which is a roundabout way of saying: the only non-sucky blood-drawing experience I ever had was with the Red Cross, where the nurse took one look at my BP reading and told me to go eat a ginormous lunch, drink two glasses of water, then come back. She got a big vein and a full bag of blood on the first try.