Comments on: Another Hospital Visit

By: karen

karen — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 13:30:39 +0000

I think I would have been doing a lot more complaining if they had taken off half my arm!

By: Norwin

Norwin — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 23:30:20 +0000

The tape isn’t nearly as bad as what I saw at first glance – the black t-shirt made it look like they amputated your arm completely!! That’s a lot of blood to take in one go!
As for the tape, the blood transfusion people are the best I know – they put a nice neat sticking plaster on, then wrap some kind of sticky bandage round and round your elbow until you can’t bend it for the rest of the day.

By: karen

karen — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 04:10:33 +0000

It was hard to get the tape off. I was lucky though – no bruising from the blood test. First time ever.

It’s going to be another two months before I know if the new medication is working. And if it isn’t – well this could all take a while.

By: Chastity

Chastity — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 15:40:03 +0000

Getting all that tape off is often worse than the injection itself. There’s no way to remove it without also yanking off a layer of skin and hair. And I bruise very badly after blood tests, so ripping off packing tape from a bruise isn’t very nice.

I hope they are able to get this all sorted for you soon. The uncertainty and waiting around is what would get to me.