Totally agree with @Afraser. My second chemo infusion began with a chemo nurse (who wasn't a child) waggling the needle around under my skin trying to find the vein for FIVE minutes. I timed it. Insane. It was very painful. And I was made to feel like a child when I requested a different nurse for the next time...
My veins are hard to find at the best of times but they're worse now after the last eight months. I've always told medicos that I'm difficult in the vein department but mostly they view that as a challenge, only to be red faced some minutes later.
The 'best' one was when I was pregnant with my second and I went to do the fasting blood sugar test. Drank the sweet drink, waited and then went into the room where three phlebotomists worked all day, taking blood at the Royal Women's. I warned her about my veins. "Oh that's fine. I've been doing this for eight years, never collapsed a vein yet"... Well of course 30 seconds later she'd collapsed my vein and I had a foot of bruising spreading up and down my arm. She went scarlet and struggled not to cry. I felt so sorry for her!
