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Your attending the one and only C.W.E orgy!!!
 
when something as uncommon as an EEG is something you know a bit about, and have a history of taking, and probably taking when you were fairly unconscious, and a procedure from which you probably have a history of no conclusive results whatsoever
 
When you go for an MRI and the nurse says if you sit there someone will be along to explain what going to happen and you reply lets get it over with or they are training someone how to take blood, they keep saying sorry for not finding a vain, you look at you watch and realise you could miss your train so you take the blood for her.
 
You feel like you lost twenty years of your life, and you weren't locked up in jail.

That's if you don't count the prison Epilepsy puts you in.
 
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When you go for an MRI and the nurse says if you sit there someone will be along to explain what going to happen and you reply lets get it over with or they are training someone how to take blood, they keep saying sorry for not finding a vain, you look at you watch and realise you could miss your train so you take the blood for her.
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I'd love to try this. Maybe I can take a stab next time.
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One time I kept bleeding after she pulled the needle so I shoved my thumb over it. She put a bandage on it and went to give me something to clean my thumb with but I had alread licked the blood off (like a 5 year old). Apparently it made her almost pass out. I said "But don't you deal with blood all day"? She said "Yah but no one has done that." In my defense it was going to drip everywhere. It was a lick of necessity, don't judge me :).
 
Ha ha! It's true! We get so used to being poked and prodded that it is like a walk in the park! I've never made a nurse almost pass out or taken my own blood (hell yeah!) but I do remember being told I could go home once: I simply took out my own IV catheter, put it in the biohazards garbage, but a kleenex over it while bending my arm and was good to go. I was putting on my coat when the nurse came in looking confused because she was told to take my catheter out. Oops.
 
The idea of a catheter makes me cringe. Hopefully I will never have to experience one. There was no stopping you LJ!
 
I hope you never have to experience one either! They are not so bad though. You just feel it like a regular needle going in and then there is some incredibly sticky bandage covering it. It wasn't hooked up to the fluids anymore so it was just the port and they were taking way too long after giving me an upsetting "there is nothing wrong with you" speech. Had to get out of there in a hurry! They were harshing my mood.
 
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LJ-Bain said:
I do remember being told I could go home once: I simply took out my own IV catheter, put it in the biohazards garbage, but a kleenex over it while bending my arm and was good to go. I was putting on my coat when the nurse came in looking confused because she was told to take my catheter out. Oops.
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The IV catheter is the thing that put in your hand while in hospital isn't it? :paperbag:
I remember 9 years ago I was rushed to hospital after having a tonic clonic at work. I was kept in hospital for a couple of hours until the male nurse who was looking after me said that I could go home & he was honest with me saying they needed the bed. When I was released I was sent to the hospital waiting room so I could wait for my parents who had gone to my place to get me some clothes as I was going to be staying with them.
Anyway when I was released from the ER the male nurse never took the IV catheter out of my hand. I was still a bit out of it & didn't take much notice I had this thing in my hand. When my parents came to collect me Mum saw the catheter in my hand & took me to the reception at the waiting room to show that I had this thing in my hand. The lady at the reception asked me why I had it in my hand & I was like I don't know so she called for the male nurse to come back & take it out. When he came out to the waiting room to take me back to take this thing out of my hand he told me I almost got him into trouble :roflmao:.
 
Oh, for some reason I ignored the IV part of LJ’s the catheter comment and thought that it was a regular catheter…. which I never want to experience. I hate needles, but can’t really avoid them.
 
I think there's some confusion between
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type of catheter, and a
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type of catheter here...

I wouldn't recommend removing either by oneself...
I would definitely >not< prefer removing the urethral catheter if I had to choose one or the other to do solo


now that I see it, I do barely recall once having the urethral type
 
OW!

Urethreal catheters are held in by a balloon inflated with water, so that it can't easily be tugged out. I was a genius when I woke up in the hospital, post ictal and had to puke. Dumb ass tried to get out of bed to reach the bucket on the window sill. Didn't know I had a catheter in my bladder and it's bag was attached to the OTHER SIDE OF THE BED! *shudder*

Yes, they are very, VERY different from each other.
 
Oh my goodness!!!! I am laughing so hard! I have had the "other" type of catheter too though. I think women have it a little bit easier somehow in that department. Wow. Thanks petero for clearing up that confusion! And visually at that.

charging bird...wishing for a seizure so you can clear the aura air and get rid of it as if it was a sneeze that wasn't coming or wishing for a seizure so you can appreciate the oblivion, reset, sleep and a free pass to vedge that can occur after a seizure?
 
The iv thing in your arm is actually called a cannula.


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That man's manhood is shriveled beyond belief. It's like a car wreck, I'm staring in disbelief while cringing. I'd rather pee the bed.
 
P-Funk said:
That man's manhood is shriveled beyond belief. It's like a car wreck, I'm staring in disbelief while cringing. I'd rather pee the bed.
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I think there's pretty much a no-boner guarantee with catheters
 
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