Labs

It’s Sunday and I have the Sunday blues again. Tomorrow morning is my appointment to get my labs done for surgery on Thursday. I absolutely hate needles and that is all that’s going on for labs. I need all my blood tests done to make sure I’m healthy enough for surgery. I hate needles.

If you know me personally than I’m sure you know I have 4 tattoos. So you may ask how do I hate needles but I have tattoos. I’ve gotten that question multiple times at the hospital in the last few months. Of course my tattoos hurt, but I welcomed the pain. Yeah I guess it doesn’t make sense to other people but it definitely makes sense to me. You can ask Kaila, my first tattoo was by far the most painful one I have, but the other ones were bearable pain.

My tattoos are: a rose on my right shoulder for my Nana, a pinky promise tattoo with Kaila on my right forearm, a small phrase on my left wrist, and three paw prints on my chest. And I want a couple more.

Now the reason I think that I’m okay with tattoos and not needles or blood draw or IV, any of that is because I WANT my tattoo. As I said above, I welcomed the pain for my tattoos. Do I want my blood drawn, nope! So obviously I’m not welcoming the pain from that needle. I don’t like it, plain and simple.

I hated needles, blood drawn and shots as far back as I can remember. However I have gotten better. I don’t freak out as much and I just deal with it. That’s because I’ve been poked so many times in so many different veins on my arms that I guess I just went numb to it. But I still hate it! And that’s that.

Enjoy ❤️

-Iliana