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luvs

luvs

'lil yinzer~
get binkies & pampers. fer real. i went fer 2 tests earlier. an emg & another involviving 'lil needles & waves & this & 'at. the ppl i read 'bout on a few medical sites made these tests i got earlier seem so painfully, intolerably excruciating, i went in both anxious & w/ 1 highly skeptical brow raised, as i figured the tests musn't be so painful if they sedatate u not. a few
said the pain was incomparable to any other; another to childbirth.

i got the tests. they were kinda neat to watch. i flinched w/ as they took the needles from a few areas, & was far further interested in watching the screen blip & change, between chit-chatting over food, Thanksgiving, steak, expectant doctors, & thier tots (there were 5 doctors/interns in there, so conversation flowed easily), -then sudden silence & medical terminology being exchanged between 'em & me interpreting the stuff that they muttered over as things showed on the screen.
my rant- ppl that get these procedures ought get over these 'lil nothings. geez. so they got a few teensy jolts & teensy acupunture-esque needles placed (many choooose acupunture~) & that makes 'em whine. a 'lil cheese w/ 'at whine~
 
Want to come let them drill your butt for me in February?:yum: I know what you mean though. I have had so dang many needles in me the past 6 years that there ain't much fazes me anymore. The only thing I mind is when they pull the hair with those super sticky electrode pasties. :whistling:
 
I look in the other direction. Needles don't seem to bother me as long as I don't watch them being poked into me.
 
seriously, muley, i have nary an inclination of the stuff u've endured. how that is/was fer u. (i know i think ur a rather brave guy-- very much so)
they were looking to gimme the initial tests fer leukemia not so many ages ago when my blood levels kept dropping & dropping despite tranfusions & this other procedure that took my own blood cells, then they sorted 'em, re-infused certain ones....... i was allergic, somehow- they forewent a simple benedryl shot that woulda prevented so much. they said the marrow testing was too risky/too much then, pain-wise/infection risk-wise. i was teetering on thin ice.
ot, kinda.
if u dislike 'dem electrode sticky-things, get a salon wax/sugaring & u won't mind so much then. hehe.:whistling:

catavenger, i'm opposite. goota look, 'er i'll get panicky as i'm uncertain when it'll hurt. i'd rather know.
 
muleman said:
. The only thing I mind is when they pull the hair with those super sticky electrode pasties. :whistling:
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Last time I came home from the hospital I had 4 or 5 sets of those things on me. They never would reuse the old ones, just stuck a new one beside the old one.

I've had 2 ekg's yesterday and 1 today so I'm sure i'll find a few more tonight.

I had an echocardiogram this morning. I must have cleaned off a gallon of that contact goop!

Jim
 
the stickies & the goobers. i'll find ekg stickies fer a few daze, here. that echo gel-shiver. yeah, warm when they squeeze the stuff on. not by by the end.:glare:

p.s.- u okay, jim--
 
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Im with you lvs.....I need to see it..seems like I can get ready for it.....the thing that has me balling like a baby is to have to watch a child being worked on....I know they are doing their best to help the little one....but I still want to walk up and smak em and ask how they liked it.......No I dont....but I want to!!!!!
 
They can pretty much do whatever they want to me and it doesn't upset me a bit ... except for the tetanus injection that gave me a concussion. Long story.

I used to be a trained first responder so the sight of other people's blood and stuff doesn't bother me. The sight of my blood doesn't upset me and God only knows, I've seen enough of it over the years. What I can't do is treat anyone that I love or care for. My wife gets a splinter in her finger and it's off to the emergency we go. I can't take it out. The first little "ouch" and I'm through. I just can't do it and that's from a guy that's dug metal slivers out of his own hand with a pocket knife.
 
yeah, talkin' a kiddo thru-:sad:, kho.
& that's on this mere laywoman's terms- i have learned to differentiate between whimpering, whining & hysterics over the years. they haven't an adult mentality. adult validatation can fix an ouchie easily, or ease the ouchie. not major ones, tho.

etf, yeah. i can see blood on foods, on real-tv-shows, myself; & be okay. i was gonna be a doctor. primal cuts of meat & sub-primal cuts of meat were the norm, sans my flinching. similar w/ seafoods. yet, my Mom, she gets a papercut, & i have her wash & in a neosporin-lined band-aid in 2 minutes.
 
Luvs,

I don't have any problems with needles; blood draws, insertion of contrast dies, no big deal. However, the testing
you are talking about with the needles that induce electric currents to determine the state of nerve function are another
thing. Apparently there is something in my nervous system that does not tolerate outside electrical currents.

Dragonfly Lady watched the last time I had to go through this and her description was that it looked as if I was having
convulsions, or seizures. My whole body would jerk when the current hit; the neurologist told us later that he had seen only
one other person whose body reacted the way mine did. I have no direct experience with childbirth, but having this
testing done was as hard to handle as some of the stuff I dealt with in combat.

I guess what it comes down to is this: we shouldn't judge how things impact others by the way they effect us. What didn't
bother you is truly horrible for me.
 
i respect that. suppose i'm jaded. i've gotten endoscopies sans sedation. my friend followed in this, & was amazed that i preferred to be conscious during 'em. she was so shaken.
i figure tolerance depends on the patient.

i went on a fractured heel fer weeks, finally got a cast, &then got the guys to hacksaw the cast from me soon thereafter. when i put weight on that heel, oh, my. yeah. that was sickening & turned my stomach. a displaced feeding tube was so painful. they zonked me to pull that.
they say a woman's pain threshold is much higher than a guy's. we endure stuff guys cannot,- having the monthly, having babies. i suppose there's a differentiation between ppl.
 
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Well you girls will never experience them squirting that goo on your balls and then holding them and rolling that sonar device all over them. I had the girl howling with laughter when I told her with that much grease down there folks would think I came from a sex party! There ain't much on me that ain't been probed, xrayed, sonared or shocked. All except my butt and they don't bring that up as long as my PSA test is low enough.:yum::yum:
 
muley, i've gotten the 1 u've not gotten a few times,:unsure:. u hafta starve, drink laxatives incessantly, then get hosed. literally.
 
At least they give you a banana flavored crap to drink now. It still is slimy stuff but better than the old chalky tasting stuff.
 
muleman said:
At least they give you a banana flavored crap to drink now. It still is slimy stuff but better than the old chalky tasting stuff.
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makes me wanna spew. :doh:they give me plain. methinx i may have gotten the other kind once. the mag citrate also gives me shudders. ew. @ 1 point, they put an ng tube (feeding tube) in to get the contrast in, & i unwittingly pulled that. soon as they placed that thing.
 
I have multiple doc appointments next week. Not something to look forward to. This time last year is when the radioactive stuff ran into my bones and started the whole cancer thing. I figure I am still 5 years beyond what they told the wife I would live so I can laugh at them.
 
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