And on a positive note

[cjsmith]

I got blood drawn today and I only got the FAINTEST of signs of being woozy, sweaty, dizzy, etc. Woohoo! I am counting that as a major success. (Not that I have the slightest clue what I did.)

If this trend continues, some day I'll be able to have blood drawn when I'm sitting up. :-)

Comments

[abz6598.livejournal.com]

Geez, I used to give platelets every two weeks at the Red Cross. I used to do the finger-stick test myself and wanted to put the needle in too but they wouldnt let me. My own blood rather fascinates me and I have no probs with it....other peoples, on the other hand, should stay the hell in their body and away from me unless I explicitly ask for it.

I have, though, caught a fair share of fainting/swooning people in all the time I spent at the Red Cross.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

I have no problems with blood; I have problems with needles. Specifically, hollow ones taking stuff outta me. I don't have this reaction if I slice myself by accident. I'm likely to say "Oh, coool!" and try to look inside the cut. Seeing other people injured is slightly more nervousmaking for me, but only slightly. Needles, though... I had better sit or lie down.

One Army sergeant didn't believe me once, and booted me outta the chair. I did, and passed out in the middle of the hallway. He had to move me. Dumb shit.

[lkeele.livejournal.com]

With me, it's blood. My blood, your blood, movie blood, hell I'm getting dizzy just talking about it. Needles don't bother me at all. Putting stuff (medicine, earrings, whatever) into my body, ok, I'm fine with that. Taking stuff OUT (blood, uteruses, whatever) -- now that's another matter. I just seem to have this deep sense that this stuff belongs inside where we can't see it, and nowhere else. Despite the fact that as a mother of three rowdy boys, a rather clumsy person myself, a former menstruater, and one-time hospital volunteer, I've seen a fair bit of it in all manner of places.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Despite the fact that as a mother of three rowdy boys, a rather clumsy person myself, a former menstruater, and one-time hospital volunteer, I've seen a fair bit of it in all manner of places.

Rather weakens any desensitization theory, doesn't it? Ah well...

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[lkeele.livejournal.com]

Yeah, and I even seem to be getting worse with old age ... ????

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Same with my reaction to needles, this last time being a notable exception. Who knows.