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[hospital stuff/blood] oh right, i forgot to mention it
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but remember when i said the nurse had trouble getting the iv in me because the vein kept "rolling"?
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obviously, she got it in eventually!
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....but not before i heard something akin to
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"-oh! well. sorry about that, we're- gonna have to get you a new pillow, that's fine"
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and i'm like ???? but okay that's fine
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i wasn't looking at this happening, bear in mind, because i can deal with the sensation fine enough, but i suspected it'd be weirder for me to see it happen
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so when i finally look over
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i have the iv in me and just
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a small pool of blood. all over the pillow. that she had used to prop up my arm
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james: 
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this came to mind because i'm writing a scene where someone investigates another person's wounds, and the memory of me just fucking up a perfectly good hospital pillow came up
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I shouldn't be surprised that you had such a fitting bird emote
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no worries about the pillow we actually have ways to get bloodstains out of them
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unless they are the disposable ones those we just toss
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it was a pillow in a hospital and that's all i can tell you lmao
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but yeah i was just like
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IS THIS NORMAL? SHE DOESN'T SEEM STRESSED, BUT ALSO I FEEL LIKE THERE WOULD HAVE BEEN PREPARATION IF THIS WAS NORMAL
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i guess my body was just particularly juicy that day
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well the standard ones have a kind of water resistance rubber-ish coating on them
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so instead of washing machine we have like three treatments that suck out the fluids depending how bad. the disposable ones are made out of the same crap as those paper gowns things people wear
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ooooh
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then it was a standard one i think
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and yup that is pretty normal. all the pressure in a vein squirts blood when poked and if you have weird acting ones they will squirt a bit more than normal
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yeah it'll come out just takes a couple days :3
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unless they manage it hit it before it dries completely
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good to know lmao. this was literally my first time in a hospital, let alone an IV, so i was just 
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blood and other fluids in a hospital are pretty common
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especially in the ER /spent one night working in one as part of a program, i still talk about the shit i saw because A Lot Happened
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i can believe it tbh
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It be like that all the time
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hospitallyfe
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i think i mentioned how, when i first came in to just the check in desk, i overheard the exchange "oh yeah, Other Nurse isn't in yet because she got in a car accident"
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and she then got rolled in while i was in the little ER room getting checked out
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SO I GUESS IT IS
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yeah, the nurse i was shadowing didn't seem phased by anything that happened, which i found deeply impressive tbh
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now having worked in healthcare for a few years (not anymore, but y'know) i'm like 'oh that's what happens'
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i know stuff from work so it's cool just ask away