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Blood gases- AHHHHHHHH!

Yup those two words together send shivers up my spine and even worse today made me involuntarily have a wobble lip that wouldn't stop due to my emotional state . I had to go up to the hospital after dougie gave me a cold. I wont make him feel too bad about it. Anyway while I was up they decided to start me on orals, then told me I had to get some blood taken( walk in the park) but then when the lovely lady doc came to take my blood she filled me in that I needed to get blood gases done. That was it I started to cry. These things are bloody bloody sore. The only time it has been painless was when I was having my pneumo thorax and my inability to breathe kept my mind off the pain of getting a needle inserted into my artery. Anyway she said it would be a consultant who carried it out and that they would use anaestetic prior so that i wouldn't feel much. I'd love to say I felt fine after hearing that, ut thats when good ol wobbly lip came into play. However there is a happy