In the garden, and RAIN!!!!
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Hi Brenda - I hope you have good veins and a good vampire and good results!
Just fwiw as some background, I used to be a vampire on a couple of my jobs, and it was sometimes more uncomfortable for me than it was for the recipient. One of my coworkers felt the same way. Her motto was - I shake like a leaf but I never miss. I didn't shake but I made following her motto of never missing my goal. I only missed once, but that was because the guy had such a needle phobia he moved his arm 3' off the bed while I was trying to draw blood. They never let us use butterflies either 
nice small needles with a 'butterfly' grip at one end and a tube with a fitting attached at the other end, used by opening up a 'vacutainer'
and letting the sample flow in. Butterflies are far more comfortable for the patient and controllable for the vampire, but we couldn't use them because of - what else - cost. A vacutainer is a blood sample tube with a vacuum in it and often some chemicals. The vacutainer shown has a purple top which means it has dipotassium EDTA in it. The EDTA binds calcium, and calcium is needed for clotting. So the blood in a purple top tube doesn't clot and you can test how many red blood cells, white blood cells etc are in the blood as it flows through a machine. Or you can take a drop, spread it thinly across a microscope slide, stain it, and look at it under a microscope. Different tests use different tube top colors. If you're interested, you can look to see what colors they're using.
To get a better handle on how to draw blood, I followed my roommate's friend around for a shift as he was a 'phlebotomist' in Rochester. They gave him all the difficult draws. He was completely nerveless when it came to drawing blood, but the thing I took away from the experience is that as a vampire, you need to take the time to carefully evaluate the person if the normal spot inside the elbow doesn't look promising. The other thing I learned is that some people just have really, really deep veins that you can't see, you can only feel. In case you're curious, you can feel your own. They feel like slightly taut rubber bands under the skin. They feel more resilient than the surrounding tissue.
Sorry to go on ... this is another thing of interest to me. 
But I hope you got some details you might possibly be interested in noticing.
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:SIX's posts are mostly all about *him*. He only pretends to care about "people" but in reality he would like nothing better than to see BRENDA, you, SECOND, JONGSSTRAW, me, and any of the "old" and "weak" people die because he feels we stole the future (Easy Street) from him, and that he will be a survivor and will pick up the pieces as they fall from the deads' hands.
Originally posted by 1KIKI:
He was posting TO me. And ABOUT ME.
But even if he was directing his post to you (he wasn't), you have your way of dealing with assholes, and I have mine.
And you may have noticed, this isn't the only place where he's tried to KEEP PEOPLE FROM DISCUSSING THINGS THEY WANT TO DISCUSS AND EXPRESSING THE OPINIONS THEY WANT TO EXPRESS.
*HE* IS CLEARLY *NOT* HERE TO DISCUSS.
He's an asshole ... and I'll shove his JACKshit right back at him.
I noticed that he likes to post that "It's the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine" except ... it really IS the end of the world as we know it, and he DOESN'T feel fine because the new world coming up is going to be hotter, poorer, and more dysfunctional and require way more work for far less payout than the old world. And he may be a survivor, but he sure isn't going to be a winner in the new world, because he doesn't own it.
And I think he knows it because he's lived it: At his age when he should be doing better than when he started out his life was derailed when his awesome job was outsourced to India, and he's been taken down, step by step, thru a series of economic events and bad decisions, to a point where he's living almost a feral life divorced from any source of income except government handouts and gray-market jobs.
So what's to like about THAT???
And instead of blaming the companies that scour the world for the cheapest labor, he's focused on "old people" as the source of the problem.
But the only way that we can get past that terrible part to a better patch is if we work together and stop this black/white, male/female/other, young/old infighting and start focusing on who the REAL enemy is, and that's the people who own the world, the media and the politicians and who are the ones making the big decisions that got us into this mess in the first place.
SIX... any of this ringing any bells? Or am I way off base?
But nobody can keep anybody from posting anything they want to post, unless the poster allows themselves to be derailed by snarky comments from the side (BTW, nothing shuts up CC faster than asking him if he's a paid troll. Just FYI).
Anyway ... back to the garden!
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
#WEARAMASK
Feel free to post this somewhere else. I'm not going to discuss it in this thread. For the garden, but mainly out of respect for Brenda.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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This was a mistake post and I own this deletion.
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Originally posted by 1KIKI:
Hi Brenda - I hope you have good veins and a good vampire and good results!
Just fwiw as some background, I used to be a vampire on a couple of my jobs, and it was sometimes more uncomfortable for me than it was for the recipient. One of my coworkers felt the same way. Her motto was - I shake like a leaf but I never miss. I didn't shake but I made following her motto of never missing my goal. I only missed once, but that was because the guy had such a needle phobia he moved his arm 3' off the bed while I was trying to draw blood. They never let us use butterflies either
nice small needles with a 'butterfly' grip at one end and a tube with a fitting attached at the other end, used by opening up a 'vacutainer'
and letting the sample flow in. Butterflies are far more comfortable for the patient and controllable for the vampire, but we couldn't use them because of - what else - cost. A vacutainer is a blood sample tube with a vacuum in it and often some chemicals. The vacutainer shown has a purple top which means it has dipotassium EDTA in it. The EDTA binds calcium, and calcium is needed for clotting. So the blood in a purple top tube doesn't clot and you can test how many red blood cells, white blood cells etc are in the blood as it flows through a machine. Or you can take a drop, spread it thinly across a microscope slide, stain it, and look at it under a microscope. Different tests use different tube top colors. If you're interested, you can look to see what colors they're using.
To get a better handle on how to draw blood, I followed my roommate's friend around for a shift as he was a 'phlebotomist' in Rochester. They gave him all the difficult draws. He was completely nerveless when it came to drawing blood, but the thing I took away from the experience is that as a vampire, you need to take the time to carefully evaluate the person if the normal spot inside the elbow doesn't look promising. The other thing I learned is that some people just have really, really deep veins that you can't see, you can only feel. In case you're curious, you can feel your own. They feel like slightly taut rubber bands under the skin. They feel more resilient than the surrounding tissue.
Sorry to go on ... this is another thing of interest to me.
Hi Kiki.
I know about butterfly needles because that is what they have to use on my veins as they are small. I tell the vampires that whatever arm they find a vein in is the one they have to use. I even told one that they had to use a butterfly because a regular needle wouldn't work for me.
Most of the vampires that work in the lab I will be heading to are pretty good and they listen when I talk to them.
But I do admit that I don't like going to the vampires which is why I call them "vampires."
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Always be well-hydrated before you go for a blood test. Drink a glass of water - even if it's a fasting blood test, that's OK- at least 30 minutes before you leave your home; having veins collapse bc of dehydration makes any blood draw go worse. Also, dress warmly enough so that you won;t be chilled because that also makes the blood vessels go hide. And, of course, buterfly needles are a must!
I learned that with dear daughter, who used to have to go in for regular blood tests to check her medication levels and who is extremely needle phobic. Experience taught me to swing all possible factors in a favorable direction.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
#WEARAMASK
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Feel free to post this somewhere else. I'm not going to discuss it in this thread. For the garden, but mainly out of respect for Brenda.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
Sure. That's why you brought your shit here in the first place.
Out of 'respect'.
For Brenda.
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Originally posted by 1KIKI:Quote:
Feel free to post this somewhere else. I'm not going to discuss it in this thread. For the garden, but mainly out of respect for Brenda.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
Sure. That's why you brought your shit here in the first place.
Out of 'respect'.
For Brenda.
I didn't bring anything in here.
I posted in a reply, then you attacked me here.
This will be the last time I reply to you in this thread regarding the subject.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Quote:I posted a
Originally posted by JACKshit:
I didn't bring anything in here.
I posted in a reply, then you attacked me here
... no worse than your lol. Are you admitting that you 'attack' people when you post lol?
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Originally posted by JACKshit:
Wondering if the story of the 18 year old girl and her dogs dying in the flood was the part that really got her off.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
You didn't bring anything in here, JACKshit.
Sure JACKshit.
Whatever you say, JACKshit.
It's a little late to try and pretend to be innocent, JACKshit.
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Always be well-hydrated before you go for a blood test. Drink a glass of water - even if it's a fasting blood test, that's OK- at least 30 minutes before you leave your home; having veins collapse bc of dehydration makes any blood draw go worse. Also, dress warmly enough so that you won;t be chilled because that also makes the blood vessels go hide. And, of course, buterfly needles are a must!
I learned that with dear daughter, who used to have to go in for regular blood tests to check her medication levels and who is extremely needle phobic. Experience taught me to swing all possible factors in a favorable direction.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
#WEARAMASK
I try to remember to have some water before I leave as yes this is a fasting test. She's checking my blood sugar and cholesterol. She's on the hunt for all kinds of things. She told me for this seizure med that I am that they can now check for blood levels of it. That is new. Couldn't do that before.
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