Other What's ruining your life right now?

Broken down on a dual carriageway, waiting for mechanic, and its raining. 90mins drive from home in one direction, 90mins from client in the other...

 

The stress of waiting to hear back about the dream job I had an interview for on Monday.

 

Was that the dream job of taking pictures of bikini models in the bahamas for 8 months of the year whilst living in a luxury resort?

 

My arm is starting to bruise thanks to all these ruddy blood tests.

I look like I've taken up heroin or something.

 

It's only for 7 months I'm afraid.

 

I always get funny looks from the nurses when I have my blood tests done (being diabetic, they are somewhat frequent...) as I have a load of scar tissue on the inside of my left elbow from blood donations.

Most people don't tend to have marks left from donations as the needles use are designed to make a small cut rather than pierce and stretch the skin but yeah, track marks....

 

Wait till you get the cannula which if you have chemo you will definitely have. I hate these with a vengeance but I have a phobia about needles anyway. But I can tell you some horror stories of having which to me feels like a drain pipe being inserted in the back of my hand. I am shuddering just thinking about it.

 

I guess you get fed up with saying what the actual cause is and leave them to their imagination!

Oh good, that sounds delightful. Yeah, I'm not so hot with needles either.

 

Depends on if I feel like playing with them or not.

As for the cannula thing, i never felt mine when i had one for some surgery. Felt a bit strange when it was being taken out but that was it,

 

Having one for surgery and one for chemo is different. I for one have this needle on my my from insertion to removal. But of course to others it is nothing. But for mean having what feels like a bloody great needle in the back of my hand for 12-14 hours fills me with absolute dread.

 

In my experience it somewhat depends how competent the inserter is. I've had them extremely painful and totally painless.



At least that's what she said.

 

I had one that went right through the vein blood spurted everywhere including my nice clean clothes had to get a clean set taxied over to me. Another time she hit a bone and bent the thing. So if you already have a phobia about needles this type of thing really does not help.
The nurse who inserted these was a lovely girl and admitted that inserting needles was something she knew she was poor at but because of the woeful staff shortages on cancer wards in my health board she could not pass the job over to someone more capable. In every other way she was a great nurse just could not insert needles and it was my bad luck always to get her.

But generally I don't really feel them going in but I am conscious of it being there until it is removed which is such a relief when it happens.

 

My arms are so full of track mark scars they called the IV team in after both of my IVs in my hands infiltrated. TPA takes a very wide bore needle too.

 

The last time I was in hospital I had to teach the nurse how to do a finger ***** test for blood glucose, the poor girl was on her first week out of nursing school and had been pretty much dropped in it on a VERY busy urology ward. She managed just fine and got it perfect on the next 3 or 4 times that they tested me that day. The end of my finger was like a watering can rose...

/*edit*/ and it seems that the forum thinks that p r i c k can only be used as a naughty word /*rolls eyes*/

 

Well it is a geek forum, and pryck does seem quite a popular insult based on the unedited portion of the geeky internet...

 

The Overclockers forum filter is really silly in the words that it will not allow.

 

One of the more comical ones I have come across was a brand new proboards based forum that I was helping out with. I wrote something along the lines of "no sniggering at the back" and when posted it came up as "no sblackpersoning at the back" written exactly as that, no spaces.

That got changed pretty quickly, no sense in 'outlawing' perfectly valid and non-offensive words.

 

There was a story about Scunthorpe Council's systems in the not-too-distant past, which blocked ALL incoming communications via e-mail, owing to the profanity hidden within 'Scunthorpe'...

 

It's not a bad one to be contained within a word for a council...

 

I saw a car recently with a number plate that using the letters very visibly made up that same word and I thought that the DVLA were pretty strict on that sort of thing.