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People really do faint at the sight of needles
By adamg on Fri, 01/29/2010 - 12:12am
Dr. T recalls the time she had just finished giving a patient sitting on an operating table before an operation a spinal anesthetic:
... All of a sudden the nurse's eyes widened and she said in a firm voice, "Sit down. Sit down right now. Right now, sit down, RIGHT NOW." She was gazing past me. I put my hands on the patient's shoulders and turned my head to glance over my shoulder in time to see the nursing student teetering on her feet trying to make her way to the nearest wall. With me now in charge of holding our patient, the nursed rushed around the operating table toward the student and arrived just in time to support her crumpling body before it hit the floor. ...
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I passed out once after
I passed out once after getting blood drawn in a sitting up position. My guess is it somehow caused a drop in blood pressure or maybe I stood up too fast too soon, as I've never really had a thing against giving blood. Needles suck, but they're tollerable.
needlephobias
Haw haw haw phobias are hilarious -- until you develop a real one for yourself.
Then your rational, conscious mind becomes a bystander to the process and a stranger to the rest of your body.
"Hey, body, why the freak-out? It's just a teeny flu --" Then there's that whiff of alcohol... FADE TO BLACK.