So yeah I've had this weird mark on my right shoulder for like a week now. So this morning me and dad went to the emergency room to see what it was. I went to register with the receptionist and alls she did was take my name. There was like no one there and we still had to wait a while. There was a TV in the waiting room, but alls that was on it was the tennis finals. Then the they called my name. This nurse looked at me, took my vitals and asked me information. Then she sent me back to register with the receptionist. I did that then went back to the waiting room. Me and dad sat in the waiting room for like 10 minutes, then they called my name again. Then they put us in a big room with hospital beds for like 45 minutes. Then the doctor showered up looked it my arm and said it looks like a an insect bite, maybe a tic bite. He said he wasn't worried at all about the weird mark, which is what I thought was worse. He said he was more worried about the light red circle around it. He said he'd give me a prescription for an antibiotic for it. He said there was a chance it was a tic bite and it could possibly have been carrying Lyme Disease, but he said that a test would really show a 100% if I had it or not whatever the result was. He said a Lyme Disease test could always be done later. Me and dad looked at each other and dad told him we'd have it done today. Then the doctor disappeared for a few minutes and then came back with my prescription. He said a nurse would come in a few minutes to do the Lyme Disease test. Then he left. A couple minutes after he left dad went back to the waiting room because he said the chair he was sitting in wasn't very comfortable. Then I sat in the chair dad was in. A few minutes later the nurse showed up to do the Lyme Disease test, which is a blood test. It was the same nurse from before. When the nurse came we had the following discussion:
ME: I'd really prefer if you'd draw blood from my left arm.
NURSE: Why?
ME: Because I prefer my left arm being done then my right.
NURSE: Why?
ME: Because when I was younger a couple times when I had blood drawn they kept missing and my arm hurt, and I write with my right hand so I figure if you mess up it won't hurt to write.
Thank god I made her do my left arm, because she missed my vain not once, not twice, but FIVE TIMES!!!! And she didn't keep poking me she just kept moving the needle around under my skin. She wasn't even new. By the third time she couldn't get my vain I was very annoyed. But by the fifth time I came extremely close to passing out. By about the third try I started to feel really woozy. Then I felt worse with the fourth try and my vision started to get blurry. Then I told the nurse I was light headed before at the start of the fifth and final try, then I felt really bad, my vision was really blurring and couldn't really even see. Then two nurses helped my onto the bed to lie down and she gave me a wet face cloth for my forehead. The nurse laid me down, pulled my glasses off by one of the arms of the glasses (which can bend and damage the glasses) and gave me the wet facecloth. After a few minutes I felt good enough to walk and I just left. I went back to the waiting room and told dad we can leave. My arm has been sore for the rest of the day. When I got home I told mom the nurse did five tries to get my vain. She was pissed. There was a sign on the wall at the hospital that said you'd get a survey in the mail about your treatment in the ER, I can't wait because I'll be very honest.
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