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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCheck out Donnie's hand. Is he getting IV treatments?
Is Trump getting IV treatments?
For what?
We knew every time Hillary coughed and all of RBG's treatments.
Is Trump sick?
Not just racist and cruel, but ACTUALLY sick?#TrumpShutdown #25thAmendment
Link to tweet
Maine-i-acs
(1,501 posts)subtext unneeded
redstatebluegirl
(12,265 posts)RainCaster
(10,926 posts)Fuckin' awesome!
MLAA
(17,338 posts)Nevilledog
(51,212 posts)flibbitygiblets
(7,220 posts)crazycatlady
(4,492 posts)enid602
(8,658 posts)A magnifying glass and tweezers should work.
dameatball
(7,400 posts)leftieNanner
(15,173 posts)PERFECT!
akraven
(1,975 posts)Snotcicles
(9,089 posts)DesertRat
(27,995 posts)yonder
(9,679 posts)leftieNanner
(15,173 posts)I think they wear the same shade of Maybelline!
Maybe they get together on prom night to do their hair and get dressed!
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)God, they both make me physically ill.
2naSalit
(86,822 posts)?itok=kTmOaIjj&fc=50,50
Snotcicles
(9,089 posts)riversedge
(70,326 posts)mitch96
(13,926 posts)Happens to me all the time.. If the IV goes thru the vein it leaks on the back side and leaks..
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Claritie Pixie
(2,199 posts)It could either be from phlebotomy or infusion.
mitch96
(13,926 posts)When I was doing IV's I would try to avoid sticking the hand. Especially older people. They would just bust. Look good, feel good, nice and bouncy then boom.. Hey!!!! Dat's me now!!!
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demtenjeep
(31,997 posts)of course, the skin is getting harder to use because there are too many scars
Ms. Toad
(34,111 posts)and who has had more than 100 (I stopped counting at 100) blood draws from my hand.
I did have a blockage at the thoracic outlet on the left side, but my veins were just find in the left side below the thoracic outlet, the veins in my right side was perfectly normal throughout.
But - blockage => no tourinequet on the left; blockage => heparin IV in the right forearm or higher; heparin IV => multiple pokes a day (or did at the time) below the heparin IV to check PT/INR. For an entire month of hospitalization. (They have better solutions now)
So - just sayin' that I know from personal experience that blood draws in the hand does not inherently mean veins are shot.
YessirAtsaFact
(2,064 posts)And she bit him
Hugin
(33,222 posts)Ironic.
elfin
(6,262 posts)riversedge
(70,326 posts)no idea. Just strange.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)Glimmer of Hope
(5,823 posts)I had this done recently because my arm veins are shot.
Laffy Kat
(16,388 posts)irisblue
(33,036 posts)I've done that in the past.
Also, he could have just hit his back of his hand hard enough to break skin. It isn't uncommon on aging people.
DesertRat
(27,995 posts)TexasBushwhacker
(20,220 posts)Making the veins in the arm harder to find sometimes.
Glimmer of Hope
(5,823 posts)Grasswire2
(13,571 posts)I have small veins, and they roll.
I always waive them off trying the vein inside the elbow because I know they won't get it there and I'll have a hematoma.
Yesterday the phlebotomist had to stick me twice to get the visible vein in the back of the hand, even.
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)Had a medical problem, lots of blood draws over a short time, my inner elbow veins disappeared, probably in fear of the needle...
they can't use the other arm, for medical reasons, so now I have a chest port.
Now, with age, I notice the veins in the inside of my wrist look like a river delta, branching out all over the place, but the skin is too thin for blood draw, found out the hard way.
So maybe his hand is a good draw/insert place for him. Really can't see any other reason to have a bandaid there. But never have seen fresh blood thru a bandaid after needle stick, either.
shanti
(21,675 posts)Some people have deep veins in the arm that make it difficult to take blood. Whenever ANYONE tries to take blood from my arm/elbow, I'm always left with a huge bruise after they dig for several minutes. Now, I just tell them to take it from my thumb/wrist. Much easier, less painful, no bruising. Some think it's more painful there, but it seems to be an individual thing.
greatauntoftriplets
(175,753 posts)Just a week ago, a phlebotomist told me that because my vein was so good I must drink a lot of water.
mchill
(1,018 posts)I have it done in my right hand for other medical reasons that have nothing to do with my overall health.
tammywammy
(26,582 posts)I have deep veins that can be shy to get the needle. I'm in fine health, but sometimes they go for the hand instead.
yortsed snacilbuper
(7,939 posts)Gidney N Cloyd
(19,847 posts)DesertRat
(27,995 posts)BumRushDaShow
(129,608 posts)lame54
(35,328 posts)Yeehah
(4,595 posts)Vile propagandist Hannity and the invalid imbecile president.
Vinca
(50,313 posts)they go for the top of the hand. Why would they bother though? No heart, no blood.
FarPoint
(12,452 posts)hand veins are small, tight, weak and not a good option overall.
Vinca
(50,313 posts)FarPoint
(12,452 posts)MFM008
(19,821 posts)In a turnip with tiny hands.....
greatauntoftriplets
(175,753 posts)DesertRat
(27,995 posts)And why the healthiest person to ever hold the office needs a blood test?
greatauntoftriplets
(175,753 posts)Very mysterious.
DesertRat
(27,995 posts)greatauntoftriplets
(175,753 posts)None come from my hand unless whoever is doing the needle has botched the effort.
FarPoint
(12,452 posts)I say yes, and very recently with fresh blood oozing thru the bandaide.
DesertRat
(27,995 posts)I wish a member of the press would ask him about it.
LovingA2andMI
(7,006 posts)Blood on that Band-Aid. Yuck! He could be getting IV Treatments before events for all we know.
niyad
(113,596 posts)niyad
(113,596 posts)LiberalLovinLug
(14,178 posts)In frustration at Nancy and Chuck.
Dave Starsky
(5,914 posts)I mean, he's a fugly dude anyway, but his face looked like a Thanksgiving turkey that had been injected with butter and garlic.
CatMor
(6,212 posts)yonder
(9,679 posts)cynatnite
(31,011 posts)Age does that.
Plus, that's not a good spot for an IV anyway and it wouldn't be bleeding like that if it was.
mantis49
(815 posts)Aging skin tears very easily. I am now having that problem myself. I bumped into a wall one time with my hand up in front of me and got a 3-cornered tear on the back of my hand that was 2 inches long. Sucks!
LeftInTX
(25,595 posts)She had a tear...
Or maybe he's getting embalming fluid!!
DesertRat
(27,995 posts)But the blood tends to stay under the skin in her case. I've never seen fresh blood seeping under the bandaid.
greatauntoftriplets
(175,753 posts)My father's hands were burned during World War II because someone (not my father) did something stupid. AS he aged, the skin on his hands got bad. He'd get terrible bruises and occasionally tears in the skin that would open and bleed. But they covered most of his (large) hands and showed extensive discoloring until it healed.
It looked nothing like Spanky's owie.
Dave Starsky
(5,914 posts)You know, the relatively larger parts of your upper extremities that tend to shear across things.
And aren't those skin tears usually dressed with something like Tegaderm? You know, a larger (transparent) dressing that also gives support to the surrounding skin. Not a Band-Aid.
Trump has a Band-Aid on the back of his hand.
Experienced nurse that you are, when you had a two-inch long skin tear on the back of your hand, did you put a Band-Aid on it?
mantis49
(815 posts)You can easily create another tear trying to remove it. But you know, he has the best doctors and others on his team!
I used a Telfa nonstick dressing on it, no Tegaderm at home.
sfwriter
(3,032 posts)😉
mnmoderatedem
(3,729 posts)sort of sums him up metaphorically
GoCubsGo
(32,095 posts)Diabetics can have all sorts of skin issues, especially if they let their condition run unchecked. I would be surprised if Trump is NOT diabetic.
Dave Starsky
(5,914 posts)A place where you can't feel the damage (because of neuropathy,) see it (because of where it is), or heal it (because you have diabetes).
It definitely seems to me that he is getting an IV for something, and it was hastily removed before the photo op.
MyNameGoesHere
(7,638 posts)peggysue2
(10,843 posts)A funny, creative bust on the Trumpster. Made me laugh.
Cousin Dupree
(1,866 posts)Shrike47
(6,913 posts)Hes 63. Hah.
flibbitygiblets
(7,220 posts)to Dr. Randall P. Bootlicker MD
Doodley
(9,142 posts)ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)Fucking bandaid brothers! Wait for all the skin heads to start wearing bandaids.
Harker
(14,049 posts)Hekate
(90,846 posts)Hassler
(3,392 posts)Botany
(70,594 posts)..... but maybe after his "hamberder tweet" this AM he might have given a
back hand slap to a table.
TwistOneUp
(1,020 posts)smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)He can't get it down fast enough the usual way.
Gothmog
(145,631 posts)The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,878 posts)Kind of like Malaria's "kidney" surgery?
ismnotwasm
(42,014 posts)When youre president, why go out with a dressing that needs to be changed?
Sancho
(9,070 posts)LuckyLib
(6,821 posts)3catwoman3
(24,055 posts)...a clean bandaid?
LuckyCharms
(17,460 posts)Volaris
(10,274 posts)LakeSuperiorView
(1,533 posts)and he DID NOT have a temper tantrum!!!
riversedge
(70,326 posts)RobinA
(9,896 posts)the same Tangerine Glow foundation. How weird.