Intervenous Access

Man was it ever stressful today at school. We had a full-day purely focusing on Intervenous Access... and it's stressful. It's stressful when you finally do a live trial on your partner cause you really don't want to screw up. I mean, you're sticking a needle into their bloodstream and everything. But... good thing is, I got it on the first try, so I'm qutie happy. But the scariest part of the day was when I had to be sticked by my partner... and it's not so much the fear or needles - cause I've gotten needles all my life without any problems - but it's more a fear of EMT Students that are trying an IV Access for the first time ever on a live person (being ME). Sitting there and waiting for my partner to finish setting up was extremely stressful... just sitting there and waiting... apparently I looked pretty freaked out cause 2 of my instructors were like... "Are you okay? If you're not up for it, you don't have to do it". lol. But it went by alright. Needle in feels like any other needle in... nothing different about it, so that was alright. But most times a needle is poked in and taken out relatively quickly - no longer than half-a-minute... but this time it was left in there for a couple minutes and it feels SOOOO strange having something in your vein... and when it moves around, it feels so weird. Also, my partner didn't put enough pressure on my vein during the procedure so I ended up bleeding quite a bit... all over my hand. Oh well... it was a good leason learned there. Cause when it was my turn, I learned from his mistake and was able to do it without the leakage of blood. :P