Cake Wrecks..I always check there, but, none of them make me laugh anymore. Until I saw this one. Someone ran over the unicorn and I like the rainbow blood. Fuck grown ups who like unicorns anyway. My doctor visit was uneventful. The nurse took my blood and it hurt and I said "oww" and jerked. And she gave me a stern look and said, "well, now we're going to have a bruise, aren't we?" And I thought, no, we aren't, I am. She's just not very good at taking blood and that's the truth. I hope she sits on a wasp on the drive home.
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Then I stopped in to have coffee with a friend at her business and I noticed a staff change and she said she had to fire someone. She said the bitch kept putting cinnamon in the coffee. I said, you can fire someone for that? And she said no, she sucked at her job too, but, it was mostly the coffee. And I nodded my head. You can't go putting cinnamon and nutmeg in peoples coffee when ten other people in the office have been drinking plain coffee for years. I told her a month ago to tell the bitch to go home and bake a cake or something and leave the office coffee the hell alone. But, she thought she was the shit with that coffee maker. ~Shakes head~ Good coffee today.
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DD,
Glad your visit was uneventful....and yes, she should have someone use HER for a pin cushion lol! That cake made me laugh... although I could see where it would maybe creep out a kid. I wish I had thought of it. I used to make "special" cakes for my boys birthdays... one year a soccer field with green icing and players with soccer ball candles, but the worst was the "Barney" cake for my youngest... almost impossible to find the mold, and believe it or not, making purple icing just isn't that easy lol!
Keep us updated with the dr. stuff!
Beth in Seville
i hate it when nurses can't do good blood draws!!!! there's one nurse at st. thomas hospital, where i get my blood draws, who does an awesome job!! no bruises ever!!!!!
when i was in the hospital for surgery years ago some nurse couldn't find a vein and kept poking and poking and poking and said she wanted to try my other arm and i said NO try someone else to do this, you're done with me....another nurse came in and had no problem finding a vein!!!
why would someone add stuff to everyone's coffee?!?!?!? that's mess up!!
that cake is funny! haven't visited cake wrecks in a long time!
I have to get blood drawn every month and I used to hate it, but, now I'm so used to it, I don't even blink. So, she was bad at it. Pokin' around like she was knitting a blanket. Fuck that. I could have done it better myself.
i have to get taken every 3 months now due to the lipitor as they're trying to figure out the right dose for me and i guess while on lipitor they have to monitor your liver....
getting older sucks!
Wait what!!! You mean unicorns don't exist?????? Somebody killed it and made a cake! You, ma'am, now are guilty of making my whole existance vain :)
My MIL had to get poked every month after the stroke...we had to make her drink lots of water cause the nurse always had trouble finding the artery and sucking it out! They did ok when she was hydrated though.
thank cake would make michael k of dlisted cry! and mariah carey!
Glad to know you survived the trip to the blood suckers.
I have blood tests every three months b/c of the meds I'm on. Every time I must remind the vampires (first I drink plenty of water to hydrate)... "I have small veins that don't pop, you MUST use a butterfly needle, my veins are thick & they roll b/c of the meds I've been on." Most times it takes at least 2 tries to hit the vein, sometimes I tell them to give up and do the wrist vein. If the stars and moons have aligned correctly I'll get the tech who also has RA and is on the same meds I take. She hits it on the first try.
DD are you on rat poison? My MIL finally got off of it last year.
I love your comment about hoping the nurse sits on a wasp.
I could talk all day about incompetent nurses and doctors...I have met so many of them. Once this nurse had to put an IV in me and she put it in the wrong place, so when they gave me medicine through the IV it shot into the muscle instead of the vein. I have never experienced pain like that before in my life. Gaaah.
Another time this nurse couldn't find a vein and kept sticking the needle in then muttering, "That's not going to work" and taking it out and trying again. And then she had the nerve to tell me "Your veins are bad." Like it's my fault...what?
Once I had a nurse who kept telling me how much she loved blood. She kept saying that being a nurse was the perfect job because she absolutely loved blood. I know it sounds freaky but it was actually rather hilarious.
DD, glad everything went well. I am unhappy to hear that I am not alone in the blood draw drama. I do try to hydrate like CJ if I know ahead of time but it's not easy if I don't. I have deep veins. Once you get one, you are in business. You can always tell if a tech or nurse knows what they are doing when they draw my blood. I was once told by a phlembotamist (sp?) that I am an anatomical stick, which means that where they taught you they should be that's where mine should be. Sometimes that works and most times when it doesn't, I end up giving blood out of a vein in my hand. Pretty painful but I have learned to live with the necessity.
I have "hard to find" veins for most nurses. While I was pregnant the nurse at the lab where my dr.'s office was got me so freaked out with all the tapping and the "oh my goodness, your veins are so deep" and misses with the needle that by the time she actually got a vial, my blood sugar was so high from stress they sent me back for more blood work to make sure I didn't have gestational diabetes.
The second time I went to my usual nurse who knew what the hell she was doing. She never hurt me and we always had a nice chat while I was there. Bless her but her kind are few and far between.
I've been a nurse for 32 years now, and I have difficulty with the new generation of nurses. I have had to preceptor a few of them in the last few years, and I have been unimpressed. I believe the trouble is that they are taught "critical thinking" sometimes to the exclusion of practical skills. Literally, I had a student nurse, from a four-year program, who was in her final semester, and she did not know how to put gloves on using sterile technique. That is about as basic a skill as you will find. And then, when I am guiding them through a procedure step by step, because they never learned the actual tasks and skills that are a part of nursing care, they stop repeatedly to critically think over whether that particular step makes sense or not. All my experience, and it is totally lost on these soon-to-be-a-nurses. The thinking expressed by those involved (instructors, as well) is that they will learn their skills in the hospital or other care setting they are hired into. Doesn't always work that way, ladies. It's always better if you have skills to begin with, and then learn the specifics of your job. I think it's a crazy way to train them, and they come with plenty of attitude, as well. Critical thinking is important, but it's a fad to teach it to this extreme. With nursing shortages, and health care funding cuts, you can't always stretch staff to spend the time training people who should already know how to put gloves on in a sterile manner, open surgical packs in a sterile manner, start IV's place catheters, etc. It's just not fair to anyone.
That "you have bad veins" comment always gets me, no matter who says it. Like the patient has any control of that??? You're also not going to put the patient at ease by a comment that makes them feel defensive or worried. Anxiety over a lab draw or IV start can make those vessels contract and "hide", too.
Sorry. I'll zip my lip..Rant over.
Me too! Me too! Whatever DD said!
I have great veins! They just stand at attention. A monkey could draw my blood...and I think a few have!
Hi,DD, I do enjoy reading on your website.
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