Ulnar Damage, perhaps?
On Monday I had to get my blood drawn for a thyroid test, no big deal, not sick, just think my immune system might have finally finished chomping down on my thyroid, thanks to my textbook case of Hashimoto's thyroiditis (those were my first endrocrinologist's words, and he was fuckin' excited about it). I'm fine with needles thanks to five years of weekly allergy shots, so it was no big deal. For some reason the phlebotomist couldn't get blood out of one arm (even though you can see my veins through my skin from three feet away and they're so plump they stick out of my skin in my arms). So she stuck me in my left arm, which wasn't bas, but then she jerked the needle out of my arm and then there was searing pain that I almost yelled. I said, "You must have hit a nerve, my arm is killing me," but she just says, "If I hit a nerve, you'd be on the floor. Some alcohol probably just got into the injection site." She brushes me off and I go back to finish talking to my doc (or rather the nurse practioner I always see because my doctor is never available).
But for the rest of the day I could barely use my arm. It was like a tetnus shot, tripled, and spread across my arm, from bicep to wrist. I basically kept y arm to at a 90 degree angle next to my body. Last night I was able to get it to hang down at my side with any problems, but I still get this creepy, kind of painful feeling, like an electric current running from just above my elbow to my wrist. I called Ask-A-Nurse this morning and they said I should go back, and I was going to, but then I thought, well it will get better, I just need to get over it, the same thing I though yesterday. But t's been +60 hours since it happened and I still can't extend my hand completely. Really, I'd like to go and yell at the lady for jerking the needle out the way she did since I know this is all her fault. I suppose what I should do it go and demand to be looked at free of charge since they were the ones that fucked up my arm.
What do you think?