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Traumatized: IV=Evil

Traumatized: IV=Evil
MrsPeel, Mar 12, 2013
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journaling reads: I'm not squeamish, trust me, after being born paralyzed, not walking until aged 5, having had 9 operations since birth to 8 years old, plus a number of others later in life, I had arrived to a point in which all hospital related things where a mere routine for me. When I had the caesarian, I had the best time in life, couldn't get why women were complaining, it had been quiet painless and easy for me, but when I had the replacement in 2003 and everything went wrong, because they had to operate straight away to fix their mistakes, I had to be kept on the IV for 11 a half days. This brought a number of problems like me being scared (and scarred!) for ever of seeing a needle coming anywhere near my hand with a butterfly clip, seeing visions of jets of blood
shooting out from my arm's vein out into a nurses face (it did happen) and crying for 25 minutes non stop when having the bone density scan in 2012 I guess the last one left the poor radiologist traumatized too, she was being so nice and that made me even more emotional, but I had
started to cry as soon as the saline hit my blood stream & is the reason why I keep delaying some studies I need done. I really dislike IVs, true.
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TFL :)
    • Mi Monteiro
      I like the back white ...
      Mar 12, 2013
    • mirjam
      Oh my! What a story Cynthia! Lucky for me I have way less experience with hospitals but I can certainly relate to your fear of needles! I admire how well you can express yourself on paper and I hope you will find the courage and strenght to have those studies done because I know you need to have them done.
      Apart from all that I also love your page, love that you also scrap about the not so fun stuff because that's a part of life too and in your case quite a big part isn't it my friend! Hugs for you and your daughter!!!!
      Mar 12, 2013
    • renee82
      Okay, so being a person who does I.V's (I'm an x-ray technologist and have to inject when we do CT scans), I can totally see why this would scare you. We are pretty calm when we do our part, but having multiple bad experiences would definetly traumatize a person. This LO is so awesome! I love that you included these photos of yourself and really enjoyed your story even though it was probably not fun for you to write. Thanks for playing along!
      Mar 12, 2013
    • Karen
      Wow... after reading your journaling I'm so sorry that you had such a bad experience. Sounds awful... however the page that you've created to capture these memories is so AMAZING! I love the strip of photos and the colors and especially love how real everything looks, especially the blue tape holding down the "good day" element! Fabulous work here!
      Mar 19, 2013
    • Roboliver
      OMGoodness!!!! Your blood actually squirted in her eyes. How scary for you both. I'm so sorry this happened to you. As for your layout, it ROCKS! I don't fave many pages but this is one I had to fave. It's awesome in every way, shape & form!
      Mar 28, 2013
    • Rachel Jefferies
      Hi Cynthia popping through to let you know I love your journaling challenge page! You told the story so creatively, rocked it out!
      Mar 29, 2013
    • AnneofAlamo
      you amaze me on so many levels. I am grateful to you, and was so excited to lift one of your pages...this one is so powerful, I made mine here
      https://the-lilypad.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=88309&title=gray-hair&cat=547
      thank you dear friend!
      May 5, 2013
    • skyezak
      Oh Cynthia, you have had to endure so much in your life and I certainly wouldn't blame you for feeling this way...yikes! But what a fabulous representation of your fear, even including some blood splatter in there!
      Jun 10, 2013
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