According to the hospital nursing staff I have “wiggly” veins in my hands & forearms. The first attempt at sticking the cannula in failed when the needle went into the vein OK but snagged on the wall of an unseen “wiggle.” This produced much pain and a second attempt by another nurse was needed.
Nurse number one said she’d lost confidence so another volunteered to have a go on my other arm, this time in the back of the hand. He was successful in his quest & 55 minutes later the iron solution had gone in & been flushed through with a similar amount os saline.
I then tried to drive home.
Ha!
Friday traffic going west from the hospital was bumper-to-bumper. The other option was to head east in a he general direction of home. But at the top of the hill on the eastward route is a large secondary college whose inmates were being released at the end of the school week.
Traffic in three directions from the roundabout atop the hill was also chock-a-block. My phone’s navigation app said I should head north, then west, followed by north again before heading west and making a u-turn at another roundabout. This got me heading towards home on a busy main road.
I was starting to get drowsy, not a good combination in thick traffic on a wet road, so I ducked into a small shopping centre and had a coffee in a nice little café until the traffic had settled somewhat.
I’m very tired, probably from lack of quality sleep & not enough iron in my system.