TangoWedding
05-16-2008, 09:34 PM
We had a blood drive at work today. I'm always one for helping, so I gave. It wasn't my first time, by any means.
Well, everything was going well, the actual giving was over fairly soon. But then the guy drawing my blood turned into a complete moron.
When he clamped the lines and took the bag off, he was supposed to clear the lines into the little vials. Well, he couldn't find the vials...then he couldn't find the little pad things...he was just rummaging all through things, walking around, saying he didn't know where anything was. Well, that whole time he was di*king around, the pressure in my veins was getting really tight. I touched my arm and it felt like a rock. It was highly painful and I was kicking my legs because it felt like my arm was about to explode off.
After he finally got it all together and all the right stuff done, he took the needle out of my arm. I don't watch the inserting or removal of the needle, so I didn't look until he said, "WHOA!!!!" I turned my head and looked to see my arm COVERED in blood....everything was covered in blood. It was gushing out of my arm like I'd been shot.
He kept putting new pads on, but it was just soaking through them in less than a second. At this point, blood was running all into the chair and puddling on the floor. He said, "Good lord, do you normally bleed like this?!" and I said, "UHhhhh...NO!"
At one point, he took the pad off and blood started SQUIRTING into the air...it went all over him, all over me, and all over the floor. I looked later and it'd squirted out about 4 feet! It looked like a crime scene - no kidding.
Other people giving were starting to freak out...I heard one lady whisper "Why is she bleeding like that?!" :rofl: (She was about to give, too. Hahahh! Poor woman.)
Wellllllllll, after about a minute of bleeding all over the place, another man ran over and pulled my tourniquet off.
:bbeek:
He'd forgotten to take my tourniquet off before removing the needle, making all that blood that was pressured into my forearm go wild! Of course, I didn't notice that fact because, um, hi, I was bleeding to death.
After we got that off, it stopped bleeding like that and he was able to kinda clean me up and get me bandaged.
However, THEN the guy, with blood all over himself, started doing his normal routine...grabbing clip boards, picking up clean bags, etc. Uhm...my blood was all over his hands!!! How disgusting! Does he not realize that's a HUGE risk?!
So yeah.
Then later, when I looked at my bruised arm (which hurts so bad now I can't straighten it out), I noticed that I had red marks all over my arm and hand. When he was letting all that pressure build up, he busted a TON of little capillaries all over my arm! I look like I have little mumps on my left arm or something!
My boss (the pharmacist) said I'd probably still have them in 2 weeks for my wedding...plus a big green bruise.
:irked:
I'm gonna get that guy. GAH!
But then I came home to what FH bought me (see other thread) and he made it all better.
:panda:
Well, everything was going well, the actual giving was over fairly soon. But then the guy drawing my blood turned into a complete moron.
When he clamped the lines and took the bag off, he was supposed to clear the lines into the little vials. Well, he couldn't find the vials...then he couldn't find the little pad things...he was just rummaging all through things, walking around, saying he didn't know where anything was. Well, that whole time he was di*king around, the pressure in my veins was getting really tight. I touched my arm and it felt like a rock. It was highly painful and I was kicking my legs because it felt like my arm was about to explode off.
After he finally got it all together and all the right stuff done, he took the needle out of my arm. I don't watch the inserting or removal of the needle, so I didn't look until he said, "WHOA!!!!" I turned my head and looked to see my arm COVERED in blood....everything was covered in blood. It was gushing out of my arm like I'd been shot.
He kept putting new pads on, but it was just soaking through them in less than a second. At this point, blood was running all into the chair and puddling on the floor. He said, "Good lord, do you normally bleed like this?!" and I said, "UHhhhh...NO!"
At one point, he took the pad off and blood started SQUIRTING into the air...it went all over him, all over me, and all over the floor. I looked later and it'd squirted out about 4 feet! It looked like a crime scene - no kidding.
Other people giving were starting to freak out...I heard one lady whisper "Why is she bleeding like that?!" :rofl: (She was about to give, too. Hahahh! Poor woman.)
Wellllllllll, after about a minute of bleeding all over the place, another man ran over and pulled my tourniquet off.
:bbeek:
He'd forgotten to take my tourniquet off before removing the needle, making all that blood that was pressured into my forearm go wild! Of course, I didn't notice that fact because, um, hi, I was bleeding to death.
After we got that off, it stopped bleeding like that and he was able to kinda clean me up and get me bandaged.
However, THEN the guy, with blood all over himself, started doing his normal routine...grabbing clip boards, picking up clean bags, etc. Uhm...my blood was all over his hands!!! How disgusting! Does he not realize that's a HUGE risk?!
So yeah.
Then later, when I looked at my bruised arm (which hurts so bad now I can't straighten it out), I noticed that I had red marks all over my arm and hand. When he was letting all that pressure build up, he busted a TON of little capillaries all over my arm! I look like I have little mumps on my left arm or something!
My boss (the pharmacist) said I'd probably still have them in 2 weeks for my wedding...plus a big green bruise.
:irked:
I'm gonna get that guy. GAH!
But then I came home to what FH bought me (see other thread) and he made it all better.
:panda: