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[AugustWest]

Heh heh... YOU guys may not like it, but I do!

Wow, you're really hung up on this sticking things into people, aren't you?

[theinevitable]

asherdan-- hell of sympathy. As someone who values my sleep immensely, that is horrifying.

linnea-- you have a way of terrifying me that is very... effective.

[jaydub]

I'd just like to report that I have not in fact died, and seem to be on the path to recovery.  I'm going to spend the rest of the day digging my desk at work out from the accumulated piles of unfinished reports.

And drinking tea and eating lightly buttered toast.

[jaydub]

When does that stage end?  My kid's 5 and she's still bouncing in at the crack of dawn.

[Nabubrush]

When does that stage end?  My kid's 5 and she's still bouncing in at the crack of dawn.

I'd be surprised if it lasted much after they start going to real school.

[side_show]

Glad to hear the sick people are doing better, but I wouldn't have minded a good IV horror story.

How 'bout two?

1) My first IV.  I'm not clear on a lot of the details, but when I was 16 or so I got really sick - like "Gee, maybe you have cancer" sick.  Many horrible tests ensued.  At one point I was at a hospital and they had to hook me to an IV that filled me with some sort of... something... that then became visible when I drank this other horrible liquid.  Whatever was in the IV burned like fire, and I had to sit in the hallway of this hospital, freezing cold in my hospital gown, with fire liquid getting pumped into me.  After about 45 minutes of this, the doctor came and made me drink something that tasted like metal.  Then I lay on a table while an enormous... thing that looked like a steam press about 3 X 6 ft was lowered down toward me by a technician in another room.  I was supposed to lie still, but the press thing had to be lowered down so close to me that it really felt like I was going to be flattened.  It was scary.

2) With what turned out to be food poisoning, I had it coming out of both ends for over two weeks to the point where I couldn't possibly keep even water down.  I ended up admitted and hooked up to saline to rehydrate, but I was so out of it I was unaware of what the nurse was doing.  I vaguely remember a nurse apologysing to me over and over, then another nurse taking over.  Apparently she fucked up the IV pretty bad because my SO arrived to find my sheet, my hospital gown and a bit of my bed covered in blood.

[Arachno-capitalist]

IVs are nothing. The catheter in the junk is 10 kinds of hell. Not so much going in, but coming out- and the Maximum Snuggles immediately afterwards. I'll never understand why I thought it was a good idea to engage in the M.S. so soon.

[littlefallsmets]

IVs and me go together like peas and horrible fang beasts. Not so well.

I have what the kids call "rolling veins" and to as much as draw blood, they need to prod me five-to-ten times.

IVs.... Christ, even moreso. I dislike IVs very much. I turn white and often pass out after stab twelve or so.

[Nabubrush]

1) My first IV.  I'm not clear on a lot of the details, but when I was 16 or so I got really sick - like "Gee, maybe you have cancer" sick.  Many horrible tests ensued.  At one point I was at a hospital and they had to hook me to an IV that filled me with some sort of... something... that then became visible when I drank this other horrible liquid.  Whatever was in the IV burned like fire, and I had to sit in the hallway of this hospital, freezing cold in my hospital gown, with fire liquid getting pumped into me.  After about 45 minutes of this, the doctor came and made me drink something that tasted like metal.  Then I lay on a table while an enormous... thing that looked like a steam press about 3 X 6 ft was lowered down toward me by a technician in another room.  I was supposed to lie still, but the press thing had to be lowered down so close to me that it really felt like I was going to be flattened.  It was scary.

Was the doctor gray in color, with a large bulbous bald head and bulging, almond-shaped eyes?

[theinevitable]

I have, apparently, wonderful veins. They are thick, visible, and I suppose quite strong.

[Drygioni]

I have, apparently, wonderful veins. They are thick, visible, and I suppose quite strong.

Do the girls find them as sexy over there as they do here?

[Fooker]

I was told that I could do heroin for years without having a problem with my veins, because they are robust.

I avoid heroin, also chicky-snacks that will grade me on my ability to do it.

[side_show]

Was the doctor gray in color, with a large bulbous bald head and bulging, almond-shaped eyes?

He looked just like this actually.

[Nabubrush]

He looked just like this actually.

I'm guessing the result I got is a riff on Area 51.

[theinevitable]

Judy-- I have no idea.
I mean... I've never gotten a compliment on my veins that I can think of.

...Judy, did a lady lick some peanut butter off of your veins?


Re: doctors. My mom's worst story, doctor wise, is from when she had a kidney stone. They needed to do some kind of scan to locate it, and they told her "stay still." While she was PASSING A fuck*ng KIDNEY STONE. She kept moving (ie: pulling into the fetal position) and the nurse kept coming in and bitching at her. My mom was in so much pain that she couldn't try to explain or argue, so she just kept trying to stay still.