Post #661558 by danlovestikis on Sat, Dec 15, 2012 3:06 AM

i'll be watching for part two of your story. The reason your blood spurted was that the phlebotomist hit an artery. I was a Red Cross volunteer at an army base and they trained me to draw blood. The training consisted of watching for one hour and then being told to draw five tubes of blood each on 40 pregnant women lined up in the hallway after a Lamaze class. The one thing they didn't tell me was to check for a plus and to avoid drawing blood from any that did. So of course I found a site on one woman and when I stuck in the needle the blood actually hit the ceiling and then rained down on both of us. I was given a jug of peroxide to cleaned us up with after finding out from the captain what had happened. They must have drained out your blood really fast! Whenever I have blood drawn I always look up at the ceiling. Wendy