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Phlebotomy and Online Preventive Medicine by CCLCM Student .. Medical Student

On Tuesday, I took an optional day-long course at CCF to learn how to draw blood. It was free, and phlebotomy seems like a useful skill to have, so I figured why not. There were four of us who did it. First...

Jenelle is a turnip! by Kelly Patient Expert

Poor little Jenelle is a turnip - As in you can't draw blood from a turnip! Dr. Shields predicted that Jenelle would let us know if weaning her from Vigabatrin was a good thing. Last Thursday was Jenelle's last day on Vi

LOLs by xoxomarebear Patient Expert

The Topotecan went well yesterday. Vivienne had to endure a prick on her arm for a blood draw, but Dr. Gajjar kindly called last night and said they won't need to do that again. Otherwise, the day was long but easy, with ev

We finally got it {bloodwork} by Bethany B. Patient Expert

Well we tried the blood draw again today...and we were successful, if that is what you want to call it! After getting half way through, her vein collapsed and we had to go to the other arm. At least this time we had a tech t

Blood Draws by Bethany B. Patient Expert

Seeing the words in the title of this post make me cringe . Kids with Down syndrome have really small veins ... and Payton's are even smaller than really small, if there is such a thing. In fact, when she was a year old, five

Another long day by ANNGREGORY74 Patient Expert

It's just after 4pm and we just got back from the hospital. I had a blood draw at 7am and a meeting with my leukemia doctor at 9:40am. I'm happy to report that the doctor says that everything is going as it should. My pla

Bloodwork. Sickness. And ramblings from the Mama. by Bethany B. Patient Expert

This past Friday, I took the girls to the lab for blood draws. I really had no plans of having them draw on Payton because I can't restrain her strong little self, but we decided to try and see what happened. They drew on Nik

The Wakefield birthday party blood draw story by Kev Leitch Healthy Living Professional

One of the strangest parts of the story of Dr. Wakefield’s research is the birthday party where blood was drawn from children. Dateline NBC included this in their recent story, A Dose of Controversy. Here are two clips f

And so it begins. by lcampbe79 Patient Expert

This morning I started the day off with a blood draw after fasting. It marks the beginning of my one year check up. I leave in just over an hour to meet with Dr. Heigh and then Thursday I meet with him again for my upper

frothy by Joan H. Patient Expert

I went up this morning for my blood draw, and it took 7 sticks for the poor techs to finally find a vein they could draw from. Note: there's a nice juncture of veins about an inch or so below the elbow crease,

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Hemochromatosis

Treatment ... Hemochromatosis is treated by a method called venesection or phlebotomy, which involves removing iron-rich blood from the bod ... » Read on

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I have an employee who's triglycerides went from 86 to 155 in one year -- he wants to know if maybe
it was the blood draw technique, something he ate the night before or what and also wants to knowcrap

Side Effects of hydroxyurea
My dad has been taking hydroxyurea for advanced polycythemia vera. He has phlebotomies every one to two months. Usually his platelet ct. & hematocrit dropped after the phlebotomy. His hydroxyurea dosage was doubled about six months ago. Now his platelet count drops after phlebotomy but his hematocrit remains...crap

I used to draw blood for a living
I used to draw blood for a living 13 years ago and that I when I
stuck my self with a needle ucrap

not till Monday
Well this is CHris and the blood draw is complete. It will not be back until Monday or tuesday thcrap

blood draw concern
Last year I had a blood draw at a local clinic. The clinic was very crowded and did not look cleancrap

56 day test with a twist.
Hello, I just got a resut from a 8 week test and it was negative. I used the Home Acess kit in whicrap

Planned Parenthood... Elisa???
Does anyone know if the blood draw test provided at Planned Parenthood (the one that takes 3-5 buscrap

Results
Hello Friends..

Just a lil' update: As I had said, I took the 'blood draw' test on Goocrap

I went ....finally
Hi family,
I went for my 13 week conclusive yesterday. I did a blood draw Elisa, I should knocrap

Concerned son
My mom just called me and told me she was accidently stuck with a needle that was used for a bloodcrap