good dr's appt today :)
Jun. 28th, 2011 06:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
boogieshoescross-posted to boogies_workout_blog :
BP was 102/70, heartrate 72, officially down 20 lbs (last measurement there was 279, and this one 259). Doc's lowering one of my meds, and i promised myself i'd get an obgyn appt in sept. I haven't for several reasons, including the infamous 'i haven't had time!', which is true, but it's also true that i hate obgyn appts with a firey passion. i know it's related to my rape when i was 7, and it sucks ass, and i know nothing's 'going to happen' - but that doesn't mean it's easy to get myself into the gynecologist's office.
*but*! i'm excited about the low BP and the lower heart-rate. it means that even the not-very-much exercising i've been doing is helping a lot.
and then i laughed for 15min while the nurse tried to draw blood. i'm a hard stick, and it's always fun to see what they try next.
-bs
BP was 102/70, heartrate 72, officially down 20 lbs (last measurement there was 279, and this one 259). Doc's lowering one of my meds, and i promised myself i'd get an obgyn appt in sept. I haven't for several reasons, including the infamous 'i haven't had time!', which is true, but it's also true that i hate obgyn appts with a firey passion. i know it's related to my rape when i was 7, and it sucks ass, and i know nothing's 'going to happen' - but that doesn't mean it's easy to get myself into the gynecologist's office.
*but*! i'm excited about the low BP and the lower heart-rate. it means that even the not-very-much exercising i've been doing is helping a lot.
and then i laughed for 15min while the nurse tried to draw blood. i'm a hard stick, and it's always fun to see what they try next.
-bs
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Date: 2011-06-29 10:21 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-06-29 11:28 pm (UTC)RN: so, which arm do you usually get blood drawn from?
me: whichever one you can find a vein in.
RN: huh?
me: i'm a hard stick - my veins are deep, and roll, and sink and just generally run away from the needle.
RN: well, you just haven't had the right nurse yet!
*RN ties rubber tourniquet on above elbow*
*i make a fist*
*RN taps inner elbow*
RN: hmmm
*removes tourniquet from one arm, goes to the other, routine repeats*
me (helpfully): try the hand?
*RN tries one or both hands, and spends fifteen minutes tapping skin, instructing me to make a fist, relax a fist, moving rubber tourniquet, and finally eyeing the big blue veins on the inner wrists*
me: just call me the bloodless wonder *smirks*
never fails - *every time*
frankly, if i had issues with getting stuck, i'd be a basket case any time i had to go to the doc.
fortunately - or not - the only doc that really makes me a basketcase is the obgyn.
-bs