Needles

[yowzer]

So, I was in a farm supply store today picking up some pet stuff, and saw a shelf with livestock IV supplies. Sadly, the largest needle was only a 16 gauge, and no longer than the ones for humans.

I was hoping for something under a 14, assuming I could get it without a prescription...

 

[Airwaygoddess]

GOD I HATE NEEDLES!!:wacko:

 

[firecoins]

I guess that rules out acupuncture.

 

[Airwaygoddess]

Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhh you got that right! ^_^

 

[FF/EMT Sam]

GOD I HATE NEEDLES!!:wacko:

Just for you, Anna.

 

[Airwaygoddess]

Just for you, Anna.

Can't I have CHOCOLATE INSTEAD!! I swear it works better than Valium, just ask Mediman who is flying the chopper!! He is feeling REAL good!!^_^ ^_^

 

[Airwaygoddess]

Oh darn, Mediman just lost the chopper in a loose card game at the Star Wars convention!!! Sigh......... I guess we will have to walk!:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

 

[Airwaygoddess]

Now we owe Hedar another space ship!

 

[fm_emt]

Can't I have CHOCOLATE INSTEAD!! I swear it works better than Valium,

oh no it doesn't! I tried that last time I flew anywhere. 2lbs of chocolate later, I still ended up gobbling down a couple valiums.

 

[Airwaygoddess]

That's right, you hate to fly! Well I will tell you, the running joke at work is if I am having a bad day, a fresh glazed donut is just like a Ativan of a Valium for me!! I sweqr I am such a cheap date!!

 

[FF/EMT Sam]

Well I will tell you, the running joke at work is if I am having a bad day, a fresh glazed donut is just like a Ativan of a Valium for me!! I sweqr I am such a cheap date!!

Wanna do lunch with me sometime?

 

[Airwaygoddess]

Sure! you drive and I'll buy!!

 

[FF/EMT Sam]

Sure! you drive and I'll buy!!

lol! Be careful; I might be crazy enough to do it.... <<<Mad Scientist Laugh>>>

 

[Airwaygoddess]

lol! Be careful; I might be crazy enough to do it.... <<<Mad Scientist Laugh>>>

Well crazy mad scientist, you will have to come up with a recipe for fuel! have you seen the gas prices here in my neck of the woods! very-very close to $ 3.00 a gallon! and that's the cheap stuff!! :wacko:

 

[BossyCow]

Hmmm a choice between a needle or chocolate? I would definitely pick the needle. I'm deathly allergic to chocolate. Last bite of chocolate found me in the back of a rig (On the gurney, not my favorite place to be) going full code to the hospital with a very nervous co-worker hovering over me with an airway kit.

 

[Airwaygoddess]

HOLY COW!!!! DO not send a choclate easter bunny to Bossycow! Good morning gal, did that happen when you were a kid too?:unsure:

 

[Airwaygoddess]

:lol: :lol: :lol: PAGING FFEMT SAM!! Where is my cheap date for the day!^_^

 

[BossyCow]

HOLY COW!!!! DO not send a choclate easter bunny to Bossycow! Good morning gal, did that happen when you were a kid too?:unsure:

Is "Holy Cow" a promotion from "Bossy Cow"??

No, this was a late onset sensitivity. I have reactive airway disease and this came on over a few years. Used to be I'd just pull out the inhaler and have myself some chocolate if the craving struck. Now the smell of it just smells a bit too much like death.

My last bite of chocolate was two years ago. My youngest son requested a particular chocolate cake for his birthday. I was moving the leftover cake from a big plate to a smaller one and a crumb about the size of a nickel fell onto the counter. I can be a bit of neat freak so I just picked it up and tossed it into my mouth without even thinking.

Within a few minutes I was looking for the inhaler. No relief after about 4 puffs of albuterol, then its the nebulizer with the solumedrol, still nothing, chest tightening, so I called my in-house paramedic/paramour and told him that I thought maybe I ought to go in and get checked out. My o2 sat dropped to about 84 enroute and I got to watch my husband's face get a bit more serious by the mile. We have a 30 mile transport to the nearest hospital so it was a really, really long ride.

The only long term effects has been that when I imply that I might do something my husband doesn't care for, he usually smiles at me and says.. sure.. you do that.. but first.... let me go buy you a box of chocolates!

 

[Airwaygoddess]

Wow, I think that is the most scariest thing in the world is not being able to breathe, and your poor husband, I can only image how he felt. So any form or ingredient of chocolate will set you off?

 

[BossyCow]

Apparently its something in the cocoa powder that does it. White chocolate doesn't have the same effect but eating white chocolate is a bit like drinking decaf coffee, sugarfree pop or lite beer.. what's the point?