OT: What words or phrases annoy you?

[charles]

Not every thing can be in tablet form.

How strange. I think of elder as a Church of Scotland 'rank'.

My younger daughter calls us "groans"

[gareth evans]

Looks like a quote by Robert Newton in the film This Happy Breed

[NY]

Exactly: if it gets destroyed by the stomach acid or doesn't get absorbed through the stomach or small intestine, then there's no point in giving it orally (by mouth). I have no problem with injections and can barely feel the "sharp scratch". Giving blood (as a donor or for a blood test) is more of a problem because my veins seem to be either very deep or very fine: sometimes the nurse has to try a couple of times in different arms to manage to get the tip of the needle *inside* the vein rather than into the wall - and that's a comment on my veins, not their skill. The exception was a qualified blood donor doctor who attempted to insert the canula for me to give my pint (very nearly an armful) and caused me a lot of pain with her fumbling; eventually a nurse tactfully suggested the doctor needed to attend to another patient, and the nurse got the needle into a vein quickly and painlessly. Put me off doctors who looked like Rosa Klebb, but not off being a blood donor ;-)

[Scribbles]

The Dutch word for "parents" is "ouders" which I rather like although my mother was never keen on being described thus. She said it made her sound ancient. She wasn't. : )

[NY]

Even "olds/oldies" or translations of this are better than "wrinklies" ;-) Even it that does describe the effect of old age on skin tone.

[Andy Burns]

For last year's flu jab and first covid jab, I didn't feel a thing at the time, just about felt the second covid jab maybe I flinched, or it didn't go in completely straight, either way no actual pain.

Maybe Peter would like it in suppository form?

[gareth evans]

Nurse : Doctor, why have you got a suppository behind your ear?

Doctor (after fumbling and examining said article) : Damn! Some bum's got my pencil!

[NY]

Now that *would* be painful to inject by needle ;-)

I meant to add to my earlier comment that while I hardly felt the injection, the site of the injection felt bruised and tender for a couple of day afterwards. Conventional flu jabs sometimes affect me like that as well.

But a very small price to pay for knowing that I'm better (not necessarily completely) protected.

[Max Demian]

That one annoys me. Surely a medic should know the difference between a prick and a scratch. The last time they administered inoculation via a scratch they put live smallpox pus in.

[Commander Kinsey]

We're in the 21st century, come on....

I'm an athiest so would have no reason to know about church ranks.

That may also be descriptive.

[Commander Kinsey]

Oh it's not painful. It's the thought of it being in there.

I've just been told that for kidney dialysis, they have to check your veins are compatible!

[Commander Kinsey]

From something most of us will never get or never get symptoms of.

[Commander Kinsey]

Is that one of those things with 50 tiny needles, like an epipen? You would think every injection would be using those. The person giving it requires no special skill to find the blood vessel.

[NY]

Yes, there is a great deal of difference between the normal intra-muscular injection (upper arm, buttocks etc) and an intra-venous injection (*) or withdrawal of a blood sample. I've never tried either, but I imagine the second take a *lot* more skill and practice.

(*) I don't think I've ever had one, but I imagine they are used to get a drug into the bloodstream as fast as possible.

[Snit]

On Jun 14, 2021 at 12:09:34 PM MST, ""Rod Speed"" wrote [e-mail]>:

Do any?

[Max Demian]

I think they connect an artery to a vein to form a 'shunt' - the vein balloons out so they have a big volume to connect the cannula. Sounds horrible.

[Shadow]

Yes, really annoying. Specially on Usenet. Good example BD.

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[Snit]

On Jun 14, 2021 at 12:57:57 PM MST, ""Rod Speed"" wrote [e-mail]>:

I am the same. When my wife and I go to get blood taken the people who do it will ask which of us it is... and if it is her they give out a sigh of relief. They hate getting my blood because my veins are thin and "wonder". It does help to be very hydrated -- but my autonomic nervous system disorder tends to lead to my body dehydrating itself some. That has improved with time and things are not as bad now as they were 10 years ago.

I have had them use the back of my hand a number of times. That is easier but can be a bit more of a "pinch"... but as you found not always.

[rbowman]

No, it's like a GrayCo airless sprayer.

[rbowman]

Note of caution... OR nurses suck at starting an IV. Three tried and failed on me. The fourth was the charm. When I complimented her skill she said she was a phlebotomist before moving to the OR staff.