Work sucks on Friday's. The hours just drag on and on when you just want to get the hell out and into a movie theater or something. It doesn't always suck. I got a little break at the moment, so I got to make this fast.
I work for Talecris Plasma Resources. I'm just a lowly, humble nurse tech. When it comes down to it, yeah, I do love what I do. It's not exactly what I had in mind when I was a little girl, but I enjoy it. And the ten bucks an hour is something I enjoy also, lol. I get to meet new people everyday and I happen to work with some guys that I went to junior high and high school with.
What I basically DO at the Plasma office that I work at is this:
1: I call out a person's name from a freakishly long waiting list.
2: They come into my tech booth, where I ask them about their medical history and this long list of questions ("Have you had a vaccination recently?", "Are you pregnant, on your menstral cycle?", "Yadda, yadda, yadda." wink
3: I take their blood pressure and their temperature.
4: I examine their arms, from inner elbow to wrists and all the way around the arms to make sure there are no lascerations, open sores, sign of suspicious needle marks, etc.
5: And lastly, I p***k their fingers on their non-writing hand and take a blood sample.
After all of that, and after making sure their blood sample comes back to me with approval notes, I send them to a back room where they have reclined lounge chairs in rows. That is where they suck all the plasma out them. The most annoying comment that people make about me is this:
"Oh, honey, your so young!"
I always get laughs when I tell them, and in a dull voice I might add:
"I'm saving up for my retirement in the Carribean. . ."
They just don't get that I'm actually serious.
The Carribean! LOL! Here I come!
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