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01/14/2004: "Notes from a blood room."
15 minutes to get to the hospital. 15 minutes spent looking for a space in the carpark. Ended up wedged between a saloon and a concrete pillar. A tiny space when maneuvering in, but one that, as always, looked larger when out of the car. A bit like a fat bride and a wedding-night bodice, perhaps.
Handed blood forms into receptionist. Until this morning, I hadn't realised one was for a transfusion. Apparently some plasma is being set aside for me. Is the transfusion confirmed? Or willl juice be there if something goes tits-up when they're digging around inside me? Apparently it's the latter.
When I saw the form, I started thinking "BSE! BSE!”. I should have been thinking 'But in my first transfusion, they used the wrong needle and couldn't connect me to the IV”, yet somehow the thought of my brain melting was more of a concern than incompatible syringes .
(One thing's for sure, I won't get betting an Empire Strikes Back Snowspeeder after this hospital visit. I miss being a kid.)
Spotted: Overweight middle-aged black woman with badly straightened hair (shoulder length) and a huge white-plastic eye-patch. White eye-patch? She looked like a podgy wookie as it was, what doctor decided she should stand out even more?
Various attractive women in the hospital. Two Spanish/Lebanese looking teenagers by the blood room. Tall Nordic type in hospital newsagent. Assortment of other lovelies. Why do good looking women only appear when men are at their worst? Them, pretty, fragrant, clean. Us, beardy, baldy, cat-hair covered jacket, ill-fitting shirt, shambolic.
(God forbid I ever meet an amazingly attractive woman – I'd probably stagger into her after leaving a public lavatory with piss on my trousers and bits of toilet paper trailing from my belt.)
Sat on a broken chair (one of a row) by a Coke machine. Lesley Ash stared up at me from the floor, lips proffered to a soft-focus magazine. Boy, that chick has some big lips.
The blood room was busy. Four phlebotomists each working flat out at their portable trolleys and dentist-style chairs. Mixed crowd attending. Thin 50-year-old woman with tombstone teeth and pallid complexion looking away from needle; talkative Oriental chatting as blood was drawn from her. Old lady with watery, very light, blue eyes.
Music was 'Vibe' by R Kelly, 'Virtual Insanity' by Jamiroquai. Song I don't know by Robbie Williams. Needles inserted to New Jack Swing, bloodstained cotton wool and 90s funk.
My bloods went OK for the first set - 2" needle inserted 3/4 of the way into my right arm. Looked at it go straight in. No messing. Told the guy it was a nice shot. Should have held my compliment - he'd forgotten a sample, so had to draw from my left arm as well. Re-positioned myself for him to get access to a vein. My clenched fist was uncomfortably close to his groin. Another 2" needle used.
Before bloods are taken they always ask for a name. I suppose it's to make sure they've got the right forms for the patient. Sometimes they also ask for a date of birth. Why they need this extra check, I don't know. Who has bloods taken for fun?
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on Wednesday, January 14th, DaninVan said
ID': "memo to self--look hot on next trip to hospital. Put pheromone aftershave on shopping list. Jam rolled up sock in pants-front."
on Wednesday, January 14th, DaninVan said
Re my "anti-Arab terrorist" tendencies:
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Ex-terrorist guest
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Palestinian radical now Christian, supports Jewish state
Posted: January 13, 2004
9:14 a.m. Eastern
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As a teenager, Shoebat was involved in violence toward Jews in Israel, but, after marrying a Christian, he changed his ways and now says he understands that "the Jewish people are the most peaceful people on earth."
"The Arabs and Muslims are wrong," he said in a recent speech in Berkeley, Calif. "The Jew has the right to return to his land. Does this make me a fanatic? Fine!"
"My own father wants to kill me," Shoebat said. The Jewish Bulletin News reports at a family reunion several years ago, he was told he must have been brainwashed by the Jews. Fundamentalist Muslims have said he must die because he abandoned Islam, he added. But this doesn't sway him.
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on Wednesday, January 14th, IDgaf said
"the Jewish people are the most peaceful people on earth."
This kind of soundbite only comes from a stooge or a simpleton.
on Wednesday, January 14th, IDgaf said
"Palestinian radical now Christian, supports Jewish state"
There's a Jerry Springer show in there somewhere.
on Wednesday, January 14th, IDgaf said
Here's what I'm getting at, Dan.
That guy is a convert - is Farrah a convert too? It's too biased, too staged, to easy to be wary of.
I'll pay attention to people that aren't new converted, that have been set in their ways for a while and are able to feel a bit jaded at the mess and politics, while still keeping true to basic beliefs.
It's bit like having a conversation about God with someone. I'd rather have one with a Christian theologian than a Christian fundamentalist.
on Wednesday, January 14th, DaninVan said
Nope, Farrah's not a convert. There's lot's of Christian Arabs; remember the civil war in Lebabon?
on Wednesday, January 14th, DaninVan said
You'll probably enjoy this guy's views then:
http://headheeb.blogmosis.com/archives/015075.html
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