[Magdalen] Stanford update: I'm so happy I could just [spit].

[Brian Reid]

Feh. I get blood drawn every couple of months and it ALWAYS takes them 
at least 3 tries, usually 4 or 5, to find a vein. The only place on my 
body where veins come near the surface is the back of my left hand, and 
that skin is usually too leathery for them (I'm 66).

On 8/10/16 3:09 PM, M J _Mike_ Logsdon wrote:
> I should also add that yesterday didn't end *exactly* perfectly.  As I was leaving I of course had to make my usual visit to the lab for a bleeding, and for the first time in my 51 years, I had to be stuck TWICE to find a vein.  I became a shaking, sweating camper very quickly.  When I told the phleb. (who'd never done me before) that she was doing it painlessly, and she replied that she wasn't getting any blood... "Oh, you have got to be ******* ******* me! Good ******* God!"  She called over a fellow who HAD done me before, and with a little more prep time than she gave me, sucked three vials out of me in seconds.  I smiled and told the first one it was just a fluke.  What I didn't tell her was that the fluke was basically her, because I could smell "new" all over her.  Nice girl, though.  I'm sure she was told by the fellow to take even just a few extra seconds to "make sure".  I know next time, she'll do me perfectly.
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