I'll Get The Results From My GP Monday
They never listen.
Phlebotomist #2
Free socks!
Enter the bagel
They always have to prove me right! This is why I have anxiety about tapping my veins. I always inform them that my veins ary tiny and jump out of the way. I show them my arms, then my hands. I tell them that nobody has much luck with my arms and usually phlebs go for my left hand veins using baby needles, like for infants.
At least this one didn't keep jabbing. But there was a lot of subdermal probing with the needle that hurts. She finally chased down my vein, but when she put the saline in to make sure the IV would work, my vein "blew out" which is how I got banned from donating blood or plasma. The cold saline goes in, my vein contracts, the needle comes out the other side and I leak blood under my skin that leaves a big, colorful bruise that lasts for a week.
Tech 1 promised if she doesn't get it on the first try that she would get someone else. Why don't they ever just start with that person!? Tech 2 explained the "blow out" and tapped the vein on the nack of my left hand like I said happens every single time. They always have to prove me righ first.
They are sending the ages to my doctors and the radiologist today.
I was really worried about convincing myself I might die, which I'm hearing is not very likely for they kind of cancer Lumpy is. But it's ok to be terrified of the radiation that's coming after the lumpectomy. I hear that's the roughest part. "Surgery" is a lot less scary of a word after my hysterectomy and shoulder. My body knows those are a source of pain relief.