Thyroid Fiasco and Blood Taking

I go to have blood tests done again tomorrow by the nurse who blames me for the blood not being in the vein! I know! You couldn't make it up could you?  The first time she did this she was fine as the tourniquet wasn't too tight, didn''t have to make a fist and the blood came out ok.  Since then she's wrecked my arms - they are really painful for weeks afterwards but she won't be told, so tomorrow she will be told.  She is so nice usually that you feel like you're kicking a small animal when you complain but it's my veins and arms against her hurt feelings; guess who'll win?  Now she has a new tourniquet and it's postively lethal, it almost cuts the circulation off it's so tight, so she'll be told tomorrow to do it with the old tourniquet and to use the small needles like eveeryone else does because I have such small veins.  If she won't, then I'll tell her she is the only one who won't listen because she feels she does it her way or the highway kinda thing.  No madam; you won't - you will do it my way or I complain and sod your hurt feeings this time. I tell you these things for a reason nursey, not so you can ignore them and press on like some cack handed clown who's never taken blood before.

I see the thyroid doctor again next week, they only wanted me to stop taking the meds so I could have another scan!  What's the point of all these sodding blood tests which cause untold misery for me to go back to the beginning?  Does my head in I tell ya.  I threw my toys out of the pram at that and said I want to see her without having to stop meds.  Once/If they ever get the dosage right perhaps I'll consider another scan but as she shouldn't have discharged me in the first place she can damn well see me without a scan as soon as possible.  They said ok and I see her next week.  I shall report back as to what happens as soon as I can.  I shall probabnly be offline tomorrow and Wednesday while my arm and veins recover from the blood taking fiasco.

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