Today I had my physical for the adoption. For some reason we still can't figure out why they cant get me to bleed. I drink tons of water and still they have beg my veins to open up. During the IVF process I had one nurse I almost smacked. After months and months of blood draws you start to understand where your best shot of getting blood is. To save myself the blown out veins and pain I would very nicely tell the nurse "left arm, butterfly needle and my veins roll. The best shot is in the side of the arm". During IVF I actually had a nurse tell me she had been doing this a long time and she knew what to do... Well she blew out both arms and they had to go through my hand. I just sat there with the I told you so look, I never had that nurse again!
Today when I sat down in the room I saw the nurse had a big needle. I very nicely said " I know this is going to sound weird, but you will need a butterfly needle and you'll have to go through the side of my arm" she looked at me funny and I said "I went through a very long fertility process that involved a lot of pokes". She smiled, I don't think she believed me. She did grab the butterfly needle and then put on her gloves. She kept moving her fingers around and then she pulled the finger off the glove so she could feel better. Then she said to me "you are a tough one". She finally got a vein and then it would stop flowing. I would start pumping my hand it would flow a little more, then stop. So we started moving my wrist around to get the three vials filled. She told me I had small veins... I just smiled and said I will never understand why I don't bleed! We didn't even need a band aid on the needle spot!
The tuberculosis test is interesting, they inject something under the skin and I have to go get it checked out on Monday. Since I was vaccinated as a child, they think it may pop as a positive. That is hilarious!
So any who, my physical is done. Now Mr K get on it!
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