Having Blood Drawn!
“Aaaawwww, omg! Ouch! Oooh! Omg! dooo-nt! Omg!”
“Please stop all that noise, he said, you’re going to scare all the rest of my patients.”
I watched with squinting eyes as his steady hand with the needle approached the blue vein in my arm and…omg! Ouch! Oooh! Ouch! Wait; wait pleeease, just a minute… All this happened after he gave me a bright orange sickenly sweet liquid to consume and I had asked if I could have ice in it and he laughed at me. I then asked if I could have a gum to take the taste out of my mouth and again it was a no! I could only rinse with water but couldn't swallow any of it as that could mess with the purity of the test. All this was said and done on a fasting that started at midnight and it was now 9:30 in the morning!I had a hour to wait for the first needle. I was so not looking forward to it.
“Shhhh, you’ll make them think I’m hurting you.”
“That’s because you are! Hello! You’re sticking a needle in my arm!”
He said, “Ok, calm down and take a deep breath… just breathe, now form a fist and take another deep breath. I felt a pin prick. “Release the fist and breathe”. I felt it as he adjusted the vial below in his hand. I watched as the dark red liquid ran through tubes and I watched again as he changed vials four times!
“Did you feel that?”
“Yes I did!”
“Ok it’s over; see you at 10:30 sharp!”
This was a three hour blood test and this was just the first hour!!
I am such a wimp!!... Lata!
