I've had blood taken or given blood many times in my life and never had any problems. In fact the last time I gave blood, the tech even told me that I'm a good bleeder (what do you even say to that 'thank you?'). Well, I'd received a letter from my HMO saying that my doctor wanted me to have some blood tests. So today at lunch I walked up to the clinic to get it over with.

I plopped down in the chair, stuck out my arm and expected to be done in a second. She took the needle in and nothing happened. Hmmmmm... She pushed it in further and sort of swiveled it around. No blood in the tube. Evidently the vein had rolled on her. Never in my entire life has this happened before! So she pulled it out and decided to go for a vein in my forearm instead. That one was easy and I was out of there in a second. But it was just another notch in the reason why this was a week to just stay in bed.