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When you go in to have blood drawn, is easy for the lab tech to find a vein?
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Apparently not for me, as the lab tech had to switch arms yesterday because she had trouble locating a vein in my right arm yesterday. I have had lab techs say my vein rolled on them.
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They have no trouble finding my veins, but Jorge goes through that problem all the time.
My problem is my tolerance for the needle and I’m always severely bruised afterwards:
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I don't have any trouble.
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Usually there are no problems. Once in a while they have trouble. I just don't like it
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Definitely not easy! That is why I recently got a medi-port for this round of chemo.
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I've never had a problem but Dh has problems. Yesterday was a bad day for him. He had a new nurse try several times and couldn't find a vein and then an experienced nurse had trouble finding one. Poor thing must have got stuck around 8-10 times before they found a vein.
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