When my mom needed to get stuff done in the house and couldn’t be out to watch us take a dip, we’d settle for the next best thing. Mom would set up the hose and sprinkler and we’d have a blast running through the icy spray.
This morning, I encountered a spritz that brought my sprinkler days back. Unfortunately, it wasn’t a cool mist from the garden hose.
It was a warm splash from my veins. Seconds after I withdrew my lancet and applied gentle pressure to my finger tip, blood splattered all over my right arm and leg. Not exactly the happy treat I remember from my youth.
But there is always a bright side if you look for one. At least I wasn’t dressed all in white. And at least I sprayed myself instead of my beige couch.
Karen! Ewww! ;-)
ReplyDeleteI hate those. Especially when it's the middle of the night, you are in bed, and you get it all over your sheets. Ewww. xoxoxo
Ouch!
ReplyDeleteYou could buy a red couch!
ReplyDeleteJust kidding.
That's from your FINGER? Good grief!
ReplyDeleteOk, I always look at the pictures before I read. And I was way off this time. I thought for sure that was a smushed candy (like a taffy candy in the waxy wrapper). It's only 6 in the morning here, so why I am thinking about candy I have no idea.
ReplyDeleteSeriously that's a lot of blood from a lancet.
Argh, hate those. My summer purse and wallet were SO pretty in matching lemon yellow...until I smeared blood on 'em a few days later :(
ReplyDeleteIt's the Sauna Summer!
wow. well your heart is a lot stronger than mine! i feel like i'm always struggling to get enough blood from my fingers. of course, i keep my lancet on the wuss setting (1)...
ReplyDeleteDude. That was totally not where I thought you were going with that post. Blood. Such a visual reminder that what we live with is pretty brutal really.
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