9 vials
I feel like I should fall over and pass out. But instead I'm just sitting here glazed eyes and waiting to pass out.
I went to my OB appt. today. Found that I have gained ZERO weight (yay!) and the baby's heart beat was playing hide & seek. Meaning making the doctor get that freaked out look on his face trying to find the heartbeat. (WHY do my children do this to EVERY SINGLE DOCTOR???)
While talking to the nurse I was asked why I hadn't done my lab work yet. As I mentioned to her that as a Mother to two kids who are on summer vacation... its rather difficult to find time without them to hit the lab and have blood drawn, and pee in a cup.
But I promised I'd go today. So after my appt I went to the lab. The lab tech was also pregnant and quite nice. But as I mentioned to her that I hate getting this kind of thing done I need her to be gentle with me. She looked at my veins and said "No wonder you don't like getting this done, your veins are barely there!" True enough, I get my left arm stuck with a needle. No blood comes out. She's massaging my veins, and then decides to move the needle into another vein... and then another. Then she decides it was just not happening. So she pulled the needle out of my left arm.
I apparently had no color in my face, and she just handed me a fresh glass of cold water. Then we started looking into the right arm. Finally with a pediatric needle the lab tech found a vein but with the smaller needle, it takes a bit longer to fill up the vial of blood. So sitting there for *EIGHT* tubes of blood she says "You know I'm going to do one more because your doctor didn't want us to check your thyroid, and usually they do, so I'm going to save all of us the trouble of trying to stick you again and take more blood." So eight vials of blood turned into nine.
What the hell??? I literally passed out this afternoon. I set the kids up with a movie, went upstairs and fell over in bed. I slept for probably an hour and a half. It is not natural to remove that much blood... especially from this body. I've currently got low blood pressure which also helped with the blood draw.
So now that I've watched the season premier of Project Runway... I need bed.
I went to my OB appt. today. Found that I have gained ZERO weight (yay!) and the baby's heart beat was playing hide & seek. Meaning making the doctor get that freaked out look on his face trying to find the heartbeat. (WHY do my children do this to EVERY SINGLE DOCTOR???)
While talking to the nurse I was asked why I hadn't done my lab work yet. As I mentioned to her that as a Mother to two kids who are on summer vacation... its rather difficult to find time without them to hit the lab and have blood drawn, and pee in a cup.
But I promised I'd go today. So after my appt I went to the lab. The lab tech was also pregnant and quite nice. But as I mentioned to her that I hate getting this kind of thing done I need her to be gentle with me. She looked at my veins and said "No wonder you don't like getting this done, your veins are barely there!" True enough, I get my left arm stuck with a needle. No blood comes out. She's massaging my veins, and then decides to move the needle into another vein... and then another. Then she decides it was just not happening. So she pulled the needle out of my left arm.
I apparently had no color in my face, and she just handed me a fresh glass of cold water. Then we started looking into the right arm. Finally with a pediatric needle the lab tech found a vein but with the smaller needle, it takes a bit longer to fill up the vial of blood. So sitting there for *EIGHT* tubes of blood she says "You know I'm going to do one more because your doctor didn't want us to check your thyroid, and usually they do, so I'm going to save all of us the trouble of trying to stick you again and take more blood." So eight vials of blood turned into nine.
What the hell??? I literally passed out this afternoon. I set the kids up with a movie, went upstairs and fell over in bed. I slept for probably an hour and a half. It is not natural to remove that much blood... especially from this body. I've currently got low blood pressure which also helped with the blood draw.
So now that I've watched the season premier of Project Runway... I need bed.