Pathology Collecting
You know you've learned something from a Pathology Collecting course when you see a man (probably a tourist) carrying heavy shopping bags, and think "he's got really good veins". These were my exact thoughts about 20 minutes ago, therefore, I MUST have learned something from my 3 day course!!! Hurrah!! It wasn't a waste of money after all!!! Actually, it was a lot of fun, and I did learn a lot. If I get a job as a Pathology Collector, I will be known as a 'Phlebotomist'!! Hehe, try saying that 10 times as fast as you can!! Go on, I know you want to!! After feeling scared the night before we started 'bleeding each other', I actually over came my fear of some person-off-the-street jabbing a needle in my arm, and felt scared about jabbing THEM in the arm. Talk about ironic. Apparently my technique is good, but the first time I performed 'venepuncture', I didn't go deep enough into the arm, and apparently I stuck the needle in too slowly. Well, excuse me for feeling apprehensive about jabbing a sharp object into someone's arm!!! Even though I was a little slow, I did manage to get blood the first time!! Yay!!! Meaning that I actually got the vein!!! The girl who bled me got blood too, and honestly, she was VERY good, it didn't hurt at all, though my heart was pounding out of my chest like in the cartoons, I probably wouldn't have felt a dog biting my leg while I waited for the needle to enter my arm. Apparently Doctors are the worst bleeders, ha ha, suckers!!! My second bleed the following day saw me behave more calmly, therefore there was less relieved laughter after the process (this was kinda embarrassing the first day). I didn't get blood the second day, but apparently my technique was better, I went faster and deeper into the skin, though I missed the vein. I was told not to worry, as the second girl had BAD veins.So, guys, if you need a blood test, call your favourite Phlebotomist, you know my number!!!
Jack Handy Thought For The Day: The face of a child can say it all, especially the mouth part of the face.
posted by Anika From Darwin @ 9:05 PM
13 Comments:
Yay! Collect some of my blood next time your in town - we can spin it down and collect the white blood cells! See how I can turn most things into immunology?
How do you spell your title phonetically? Ever notice that you'd have to spell phonetically differently when you spell it phonetically. Its like people with a lisp when they say the word lisp will have a pronounced lisp ...
Don't you mean immunIology?? Phlebotomist is pronounced Fleb-ot-o-mist. Hehe. How are you going Mel?? I feel this day has lasted too long already. Thank God it's Friday!!!
Miss you mate!!!!! Take care.
BTW, how is your new flat mate?? Is his name Ridhish by any chance??
Hey Anika... It made me shudder when you said 'your second bleed' It reminds me of those old days when they'd bleed people to cure them of some illness. Glad you liked the course though :) You've spent too much time with a headset on when you start to hear voices and have to shake your head to clear the static :P
Yoomi
I sooo posted a comment on this! Where did my comment go???
Did you delete my comment ANIKA??? :P
I bet she did Vidya... It's part of the Darwin vs. Sydney battle... :D
Yoomi
I didn't delete your comment Vids!!! Maybe you posted it on a different post. Trust me, why would I keep a random person's comment like Elijah's and then delete yours!!!! No, no, no, I most definitely did not delete it!!! Your comment, (I'm assuming you actually wrote one!!!) has most definitely vanished into thin air.
Maybe Vids's other personality deleted it...the personality that writes "porn" and says "bitch".
hehe
:O:O:O "po**" an "B****"??? Oh dear! what else has my other personality been upto???
Anyways my comment was like Mel's... only more genitical than immunological...which makes me think that perhaps it was Dr. Immunology! (Not mentioning any names here:P)
*gasps inwardly the way Vids does when someone swears*
I love the word 'genetical'!!!
Hehe.
It looks remarkably like another word!!!! (That's not why I like it though!!)
That reminds me that I found another gene and its located in sperm - my supervisor thinks we could make a male contraception and earns millions! He also made some funny remark about making women happy by putting it all on the men - I'm wondering if his split personality is a woman based on that joke!
Do you just 'find' genes like you 'find' grains of sand at the beach??
Do all supervisors have split personalities??
"Genetical" sounds like "geneticist"... is that the word you were thinking of??
Mel: leave some genes for the other immunologists! If you find all of them, then who is going to want to pay their stipend???
I reckon my spervisors split personalit yis a clown... hence the bow tie and funny hair-do...
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