Blood test, is there any point?

[TheBig1]

blood tests are a bit like virginity....one little prick and it's all over before you know it

 

[busby]

If you do not like blood samples being taken then avoid having a bone marrow sample taken. I had that done just this week and boy does it make your eyes water.

Had one done years ago..still got the scar on my chest..BUSBY.

 

[ShiftZZ]

If you do not like blood samples being taken then avoid having a bone marrow sample taken. I had that done just this week and boy does it make your eyes water.

Bone Marrow biopsy, yep had one,, pain ouch...

 

[DuxDeluxe]

My dog has never said they were

I bet he never said that the thermometer was cold, either

 

[GWAYGWAY]

Our polio vaccinations were not injections, but multiple punctures onto the upper arm and the 'serum' being inserted through them.

Still got the scar, as have most people of my age.

There was a polio epidemic in Brighton & Hove when I was young - traced eventually to being spread through one laundry, before we had home washing machines.

Geoff

The multiple jagging one was a TB - BCG vacination and also the antibody test first like a football boot stud fixing, five holes in a circle, Polio was a straight injection Smallpox was also a multiple hole jobby.

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[trophychap]

Jen and her big sis had Polio jabs as soon as they became available on the NHS - about 1955 ish, a series of 3 jabs about a month apart, followed by a booster 12 months later. Thinks it was known as the Salk vaccine? Well before the sugar cube on was available.

She then had another booster on a sugar cube in the 80s or 90s when she and husband No 1 went to far flung places on holiday for a few years running so had booked to get whichever ones she needed this time and the nurse suggested she may as well while she was there.

 

[carolyn]

It is confusing because we only changed to the dead Salk injectable vaccine for polio in the UK a few years ago whereas in the USA they started using it in 2000. It does sound as though some had injectable polio, the Salk version years ago, which was unusual in the UK. I wonder if it was more widely available to military personnel and their families. I am going to have to research this, aren't I sad.
The smallpox left a nasty scar on a lot of people as it was given intradermally with a funny pronged needle in some cases like a vipers tongue. I hadn't realised there were so many ways, it was to try to eliminate operator error as you didn't want the jab going deep like tetanus as it could cause nasty reactions. Unlike with the Mantoux which was intradermal because you needed to see the reaction to judge the next course of action.

 

[Shrimp]

Polio was with something else on a sugar lump given by the family Doc.
Multiple needle job was done in school and for TB.
There was something else done in school-a scratch on the arm to see if you reacted then you may have needed the jab, can’t remember what that was for.
Used to be sent for blood tests years ago and it was always painful, then my vein decided it wasn’t going to play so started ‘jumping’.
Now I have to go again because of the meds for my AF and the nurses are brilliant, hardly feel a thing!

 

[Gooney]

My hand after a Misplaced cannula last year

 

[steve 6644]

My hand after a Misplaced cannula last year
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Jesus wept! whoever did that must be proud.

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[MisterB]

My hand after a Misplaced cannula last year
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I misplaced a can o beer last night, soaked the carpet and the missus went beserk. It was her can !

 

[TheBig1]

My hand after a Misplaced cannula last year
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I had a cannula fitted for pushing dye in for a specialist CT scan. but it was not in the vein right and just inflated the skin on my hand. I can tell you it bloody hurt. back on the ward i had my hand in an ice pack for hours. And yes it bruised, but i cant find the photo right now. The nurse that caused it got in a right state, but i assured her it was just an unfortunate accident and dont worry

 

[Gooney]

Jesus wept! whoever did that must be proud.

16 hrs in A & E admissions before getting a bed then made comfortable and cannula moved to forearm where it was less troublesome, mind problem was exasperated by the fact I’d been dosed with anti clotting agent to alleviate massive pulmonary embolism.

 

[nicholsong]

I misplaced a can o beer last night, soaked the carpet and the missus went beserk. It was her can !

You bustard - beer in a can instead of a glass. You should be ashamed of yourself.