Went for my blood test (they have to regularly check my hormones for my weird hormone thing and thyroid) and my right elbow vein has tissued (I think it means collapsed in some way or something - gone hard, they can't get the needle in). The left one is still not working either. She went to try my left hand.

'I'd try the right if I were you - the left one went with my venflon when I was giving birth'. Finally she got a vein on the side of my wrist.

Now if this is what happens after a few blood withdrawals a few months apart, how the hell do heroin addicts manage?

I asked Steve. He looked at my arm and said, 'I'd get blood from you no problem,' and proceeded to show me many and various veins he'd try. 'And I wouldn't make that mess either,' he commented, since the try at the elbow and the wrist had left bruises.

They really should have the experts rather than the nurses doing this blood malarky.