Creating Browncoats At The Red Cross

POSTED BY: Whimsicalnbrainpan
UPDATED: Sunday, June 1, 2008 22:00
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PSANDUSKY

Saturday, May 24, 2008 12:43 AM

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Originally posted by Whimsicalnbrainpan:
PSandusky: Well that is why the series would be good to donate as well. And my chapter must have great nurses, everything went swimmingly. I didn't even bruise and I have small veins, am a hard stick, and bruise easily.

Lucky stiff. I've had all kinds of horrid things happen to me, and somehow, the nurses blame it on my arms every time.

One nurse stuck me without knowing where the vein was -- what's scary is, she's the trainer -- and literally took a biopsy on my arm. She pronounced the arm as being without veins (?!!), gave me an icepak, and sent me on my way. I went to Dragon*Con a few weeks later, after giving that mess time to heal, and sat in the chair for the LifeSouth folks. I kid you not, the nurse there tapped that very arm twice and slipped the needle in, no problem -- excellent bleed time, no reaction, life was beautiful. Somehow, locally, I came up short on the needlesticker lottery.

And I'll have you know that the one and only time I've infiltrated was the one, single, solitary day I took a single Doctor Who DVD to watch while I was in the chair. No lie! I can't win!

(P.S. -- The people who stick your arm come from the Red Cross Blood Regions. The Chapter folks do disaster services and such.)

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WHIMSICALNBRAINPAN

Saturday, May 24, 2008 5:38 AM

So far I've been lucky. All the sticks but one have beeen good when giving whole blood (damn nurse wiggled the needle when it was in my arm trying to find a vein). And the sticks I had giving plateletts was flawless. Granted it was my first time and I will go back again in the next couple of weeks. We'll see how it goes. I think we are lucky and have good nurses.

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DAVESHAYNE

Saturday, May 31, 2008 9:39 PM

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WHIMSICALNBRAINPAN

Sunday, June 1, 2008 10:00 PM

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I bump because I can.

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