Ouch! Needles...

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Originally Posted by Lindsey

I had a student nurse take my blood once, and he forgot to close it before pulling the needle out and it spilled out... there was a puddle of my blood sitting there and I felt like I was going to either throw up or pass out!

Alot of people can't stand to see their own blood - and alot of them pass right out when they do. Blood, even my own, doesn't bother me one bit.

OK, I'll let you all in on another secret of mine. Being a nurse I have seen EVERYTHING! But I don't work in the ER, I couldn't work in the ER because when I see injured people in street clothes or medical people doing things to people in street clothes, it REALLY bothers me. I'm really bothered at the scene of a terrible accident - I'm OK with minor accidents or minor trauma - but major trauma before the hospital just really bothers me. I can take care of people but it haunts me for days. I coud NEVER be an EMT or paramedic.

However, I worked for years in ICU so when people come up to me after major trauma, they are either naked or in a hospital gown, but their clothes are GONE. At that point, naked or in a hospital gown, I am just fine - it doesn't matter what has happened to them, or what they look like, I am just fine with it. But don't let me see them roll through the ER door still dressed in street clothes.

Now Lindsay! THAT is reallllly weird!!!