CT-scan today. The nurse who placed my PICC line also took my blood pressure. When detaching the cuff, the pen she had in her hand pressed against my side and drew a long ink line across my new green shirt. Themselves not noticing I pointed out "you just drew a line on my shirt with your pen". They said "I'm really sorry", packed up the stuff and left.
It felt like a weird interaction. And yes, it also wasn't painless.
Now trying to change perspective and have to assume they were very stressed. Lots of things in the interaction felt rough and rushed which would seem to support this.
Anyway. I doubt it will wash out, which made me a little sad. But also, it's just stuff.
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And now I just had to remind the head nurse that I was supposed to get medicine 30 mins ago to address my previous negative reactions to the contrast fluid.*
They had no note of this, searched, found it and thanked me for reminding them. Feels like many are back from their vacation today.
*Supposed to be administered 2 hours before the scan.
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Three days later. I went to leave a blood sample on Tuesday morning (the day after my CT-scan) per instruction by the doctor. He called today wondering why I hadn't. I said I did.
He then found that the requested test got mixed up with another doctor's requests (one I haven't met). The blood I left on Tuesday was tested for something completely different. So I have to go in again tomorrow and leave yet another blood sample. And my arm is bruised where the needle went in.
Closing in on too many weird mixups for comfort now.
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