Venipuncture/Venepuncture Hands-on

The first time I let people take blood on me, I felt like I was having a roller coaster ride-like the spaceshot in Genting, when you are hung in the middle of the air of 20-storey height and waiting for it to dash down in full force and you hold your breath for it and wait for the moment to arrive-that was the kind of moment I had for my very first time of being poked. Because you see, the thought of pain is just overwhelming, but the truth is the actual feeling of pain might just be less overwhelming after all. Anyway, after being poked, I was just simply buoyant over the fact that I've been POKED for my first time eventually, I did conquer my fear over the thought of pain and I pretty much had a very 'high' moment of my life!

So I thought, now that I had my first time of being poked, it's time for me to poke other people some other time, and today, I had my chance *YAY*(shouting inside)!

So today I had my clinical session in PPUKM, there're a few doctor stuff that we had to learn: 1. interprete chest X-ray; 2. venipunture and; 3. listen to the heart sound.

We went on to the chest X-ray part after listening to the briefing, it was very catchy looking at all those abnormal X-rays and being explained to. Following that, we rotated to the next station which was venipuncture and when we arrived there was already people practicing on each other and it was so thrilling by watching alone already. However, there was one not so successful trial that had put the sudject in great pain, could see right through her expression, just dreadful, blood was coming out, subject ouch-ing in pain and the handler not sure to go further in or out *shiver

Anyway, after we were brieved about it, we tried on a mannequin first, even though wasn't really successful but till the end I still decided to do it on a real human being as I didn't wanna regret over missing the chance. But don't be scared by the sound of it, coz now that I know, I'm fully capable in fact haha! Okay, after me and Ryan reached our consensus of being each others' victim, I had my go before him. And here goes the drill:

For starter, I gathered all the essentials needed, a syringe, a needle, gloves, alcohol swab and a cotton. Next thing I did was to feel the vein, choose a nice and conspicuous one, wear on my gloves, tie the tourniquet and prepare the needle and syringe. When all things were set, here I went, holding the syringe, toughened up my mental state a bit convincing myself that I'm gonna do best and started to approach the VEIN(I didn't notice how Ryan looked but Pau told me later on that he was quite anxious watching me lolx!!)Anyway, maintaining the needle at 15 to 30 degrees, I firmly pushed the needle in without a problem, well at the same time I could see my hand which was holding the syringe shaking quite a bit, god knows how the owner of the vein felt(but it's not that I could control, I wasn't nervous at all alright). Then I kept on pushing it waiting the back flow to appear but after a bit less then half of the needle had gone in the back flow still didn't appear. So, the teaching staff asked me to stop and start to pull the blood out and surprisingly, it did come out which indicated my golden success! hurray^^

After that was Ryan's turn for revenge. And he did all the pre-procedure preparation and found my vein too. One thing to highlight here is that my vein was praised!!Ohhohoho! The staff said it was a really nice vein and told Ryan not to mess up with it and lose my vein(and then I thought well it's okay coz if he loses my vein I still have my VAIN-ity)erhm, and then when all set, he began to insert the needle. Watching it go in and the transient stinging pain were quite thrilling, I think the pain might have triggered the release of Endorphine in my brain hah! Anyway, it was quite a success too but not that much compared to my 'GOLDEN' one hah!!Coz too bad an hour and a half later, it became like this:

However, none of his fault, just some insignificant local hypersensitivity, now it has subsided most of it. Anyway, I wanna do more venipuncture in the future, might even get addicted to it hah.