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short bus president Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-31-05 08:47 PM
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Vein ladies of DU... your favorite tourniquet tips?
When I was doing phlebotomy, I could hit the deepest, tiniest, rolling-est little veins anyone had, but I ALWAYS got my damn finger stuck in the tourniquet.

OK, OK - vein guys, too. Why not.

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ScreamingMeemie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-31-05 08:48 PM
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1. Where were you when I needed you in January, huh?
By the time they found a vein, it looked like a sick recreation of "Carrie" in the room. :hi:
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short bus president Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-31-05 08:55 PM
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10. Oh, you'd be EASY!
Just whisper "Favre" in yer ear and that heart goes pumpy.
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ScreamingMeemie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-31-05 09:11 PM
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14. It goes pumpity pumpy!
:hi:
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short bus president Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-31-05 09:14 PM
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15. hey now... no sex threads.
Cold shower! COLD SHOWER!!!

;-)
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benddem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-31-05 08:49 PM
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2. Hah!
Did you use penrose drains or rubber tubing? The velcro ones would have fixed that.
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short bus president Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-31-05 08:53 PM
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6. just the rubber tubing
and to be technically correct, it was not my finger so much as the glove that got caught. But NOBODY wants to sit there with a tourniquet on their arm going numb while you glove up...
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Cyndee_Lou_Who Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-31-05 08:49 PM
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3. OK, the thought of you and needles....
:scared:
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short bus president Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-31-05 08:51 PM
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4. someone say something about
tongue piercing?

;-)
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Cyndee_Lou_Who Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-31-05 08:54 PM
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9. I kid.
I'd let you perform a cholecystectomy on me. :loveya:
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short bus president Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-31-05 08:57 PM
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11. You've got some gall, honey.
Isn't this a sex thread?

;-)
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NC_Nurse Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-31-05 08:51 PM
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5. I never get my fingers stuck
but then, I LOVE stickin' people!

In GI procedures, most of my patients are totally dehydrated from bowel preps and it's a real challenge. I guess that's why I like it. I have gotten good at tracking down tiny veins and holding the rollers down or chasing them down.

It's like all of medicine, half art and half science. :)
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short bus president Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-31-05 08:59 PM
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12. half science my ass!
It's half auto shop and half home ec.

;-)
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liberalmuse Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-31-05 08:53 PM
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7. If you wrap a tourniquet tightly around your neck...
and cut off all the blood flow to the brain, after about 5 minutes, you start 'thinking' like a freeper.
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elperromagico Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-31-05 08:54 PM
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8. I'm BLEEDING!!! I'm BLEEDING!!!
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MuseRider Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-31-05 09:09 PM
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13. I was a phlebotomist too!
I loved that job. You got to know all the patients all over the hospital. In fact it may have been one of my favorite jobs of all time. The only bad thing is I am now terrified of having an arterial stick because they seem to be painful. I loved going to codes or being called when someone else couldn't make the stick. It really was a pretty cool job. It also makes me sorry for the others when I show up because they usually have to stick my thumb, I have very skinny hard to stick veins.
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