#small veins

[beebeebunni]

You can work-out your arm veins. Who knew? Not me, until now.

Almost forgot to mention I went to see my doctor Tuesday about the mystery pain I was having in my side & back (which decided to fade and disappear during the course of the week so I was fine by my appointment). Interesting thing is he’s my Mom’s doctor, and my Aunt K is his head nurse so I’ve known him since I was little. So my appointment was pretty nice and casual. My doc wanted some base line blood work done so they’d have some numbers to reference next time I came in. Now for years I’ve been told by multiple nurses when taking my blood, “Oh, you just have small veins. That’s okay we can use the baby needle.” In the most casual tone of voice, like it was a normal thing that I shouldn’t worry about. My Aunt, who has been a nurse for 20+yrs, goes to take my blood, and says “Oh my god you have such small veins. That’s not good.” WHY WAS I NEVER TOLD THAT WASN’T GOOD?! WHY?! Dafaq. So now I have to exercise my arms/veins every day for about 5 mins (just simple arm curls while making a fist and then relaxing my hands), so I can make my veins bigger.

[theressomethingoutthere]

So that's my first and last time donating blood.

[dahliadear]

I would be crying so hard right now if I wasn't in public.

My veins are too small to donate blood. All of this time I've wanted to donate blood, all of the years I've tried and I finally get this far. I sign up, wait in line, go into the booth where I give them my information, get pricked to test my hemoglobin, I'm in perfect age, height, weight, health, condition to donate, I've forced myself to swallow my fear of the pain needles accompany, lay down and squeaze the ball and nothing. Two nurses check both arms and I'm in total disarray. The one vein they can even use is over a tendon which they say is dangerous and could put me in pain for awhile. Not only that but it's so small it would take too long to draw the blood because while hospitals have suction, their needles rely on gravity to draw the blood down. I can't even begin to relay to you the heartbreak and devestation I'm feeling right now. I'm really upset, you guys. I really wanted to donate blood.

I should have just told them I would take the risk of them pricking my tendon.