Ouch! Needles...

[Lindsey]

Lol yeah that's weird Gayle I had a student nurse take my blood once, and he forgot to close it before pulling the needle out and it spilled out... there was a puddle of my blood sitting there and I felt like I was going to either throw up or pass out!

It's funny that I'm okay with tattoos, and I have peircings too. I let someone stick a 14 guage hollow needle through my tongue I will never do it again, but I did it once! It seems different to me somehow when it's a peircing needle as opposed to a medical needle.

The woman who gave me my shot today gave me the tip of my needle, saying she is supposed to throw it out but they are great for digging out slivers. Scott was like "Awesome, we'll take it" but it creeps me out!

[paula1961]

I am also terrified of needles Lindsey. I just turn my head and don't look.

[gja1000]

Originally Posted by Lindsey

I had a student nurse take my blood once, and he forgot to close it before pulling the needle out and it spilled out... there was a puddle of my blood sitting there and I felt like I was going to either throw up or pass out!

Alot of people can't stand to see their own blood - and alot of them pass right out when they do. Blood, even my own, doesn't bother me one bit.

OK, I'll let you all in on another secret of mine. Being a nurse I have seen EVERYTHING! But I don't work in the ER, I couldn't work in the ER because when I see injured people in street clothes or medical people doing things to people in street clothes, it REALLY bothers me. I'm really bothered at the scene of a terrible accident - I'm OK with minor accidents or minor trauma - but major trauma before the hospital just really bothers me. I can take care of people but it haunts me for days. I coud NEVER be an EMT or paramedic.

However, I worked for years in ICU so when people come up to me after major trauma, they are either naked or in a hospital gown, but their clothes are GONE. At that point, naked or in a hospital gown, I am just fine - it doesn't matter what has happened to them, or what they look like, I am just fine with it. But don't let me see them roll through the ER door still dressed in street clothes.

Now Lindsay! THAT is reallllly weird!!!

[judy]

That is weird Gayle! We all have our quirks though. Can't say I blame you. Looking at accident victims is just heartbreaking. Maybe once they are in hospital robes, you feel like they more under control than in bloody clothes. I once saw a boy being put into an ambulance after a car accident, and broke out crying.

It sounds like you cope with your fear of needles Linds. You'll be fine having babies!

I don't mind getting, or giving needles. I prefer to watch because it is my vein, and I want to be sure they know what they are doing! When I was in school, I would never allow anybody to take my fingertip blood. I did it myself. Might be a control freak huh?

[gja1000]

Originally Posted by judy

I don't mind getting, or giving needles. I prefer to watch because it is my vein, and I want to be sure they know what they are doing! When I was in school, I would never allow anybody to take my fingertip blood. I did it myself. Might be a control freak huh?

Uh yep, you might be! I once watched a nurse draw blood on herself!!! I couldn't do that!

[judy]

Originally Posted by gja1000

Uh yep, you might be! I once watched a nurse draw blood on herself!!! I couldn't do that!

I would do my own dental work if I knew how, and I never let the dentist put me out! Definite control freak

[Lindsey]

I remember in high school biology, we each got those triangle-shaped blades to poke our own fingertips so we could get a drop of blood to check our blood type. If we absolutely couldn't do it ourselves, we had to get a friend to do it. I somehow got through that whole lab without getting my finger poked

[judy]

My kind of girl! Just don't do it!