Oh, silly me,

sending to your personal address failed, so I made it a new post, excuse
me an another apology :-)

Nikki

i'm the one who should apologize, for not remembering english is your second
language, nikki.  you write better than many, for whom english is their
primary language, which is probably why i forgot.

either way, it still sounds like it was a frightening experience for you.  i
think i'd still avoid that particular nurse, at least until i received a
clear explanation, from a doctor, of why it happened.  that's just too
scary.  i'm sorry it happened to you, hon.

kate
(hanging in there)

Hi Kate,

hope you don't mind me sending mail to your personal address,you see
I have to make my apologies, as I think I gave you a bigger scare than
would've been necessary...it's my english (native language is
Netherlands); ofcourse the blood did not spray...it was running in quite
a quantity down my arms on myself and the nurse, so it was more like two
  streaming rivers rather than some sort of bloody shower.

it was weird though and felt just as scary to me.

Anyway, I hope you are doing as fine as you can given circumstances,

Nikki

"nikki" <wolfgirl@ilse.nl> wrote in message
news:433f0304$0$740$5fc3050@dreader2.news.tiscali.nl...
<snip>
Last monday I had to go in for bloodtests and somehow it all went wrong,
blood was spraying from the vain on nurse, myself and the floor, then
she tried my left arm, same story, I could feel myself fading and
passing out! Never ever experienced this before.
She just couldn't keep the needle in because the bloodpressure kept
pushing the needle out.
<snip>

Nikki

very scary, ((((((nikki)))))).  an artery will spray, because it has the
force of the heart's pumping function behind it, to get oxygenated blood to
and through all the distant and very tiny capillaries in the body.  but
i've
never heard of a vein actually spraying.  the return trip of oxygen
depleted
blood, in veins, back to the heart has much reduced force behind it.  this
experience sounds like you had an incompetent lab tech/nurse, who kept
hitting arteries, which can be dangerous.  did you wind up with sub-dermal
tissue rapidly swelling at and around the blood draw sites?   boy, i
think i
would try to remember who that lab tech/nurse was and avoid her at all
costs
in the future!  i might even report her, for the sake of other patients.
out of curiosity, what was your blood pressure reading that day, nikki?

kate

Becky wrote:

bad,

walked up