>> The nurse was actually quite friendly, but... well the doctor did want 
>> blood out of me. No matter how sweetly they smile at you, you're still 
>> getting stabbed in the arm! :-S
> 
> True... very true. Still, I try to be as kind to the nurse as possible. :)

Heh, sure. This nurse is the same one who did my ECG a few weeks ago. 
She's quite friendly and chatty.

> Ah, they almost always have to do that with me. Once they wanted to do a 
> blood test because I kept getting ear infections, but they couldn't find 
> a vein. They kept poking around... >.< eventually they got the "expert" 
> and managed to get it on their first try.

My dad did clinical trials. (I.e., they inject you with random chemicals 
to see what happens - if anything.) His arm is like a pin cushion! 
There's so much scare tissue they have to use the other arm now... (He's 
also a blood donor. Or he was - not sure if he still is.)

My mum always ends up getting multiply stabbed while they try to find 
something vein-like. I guess because of the 6 inches of blubber under 
her skin? :-P

>> As an aside, my dad sometimes works with blood samples. Do you have 
>> any idea how much **** there is floating in some of them?! The really 
>> fun ones are where you have to scrape through an inch of solid cow 
>> lard to get to the liquid blood underneith! :-S
> 
> Ugh..cholesterol?

Well... animal fat of some description. My dad says it's worst when it's 
the morning sample, and the person has just had a full English 
breakfast. ;-)

>> Alice's daughter was rather late. 11 lb 6 oz. Born naturally. 
>> (EVENTUALLY! It took her all day to do it though...)
>>
> 
> Wow.. that's a monster! Wait, are lbs in the U.K. the same as lbs in the 
> U.S?

I don't know, but yeah, that's FRICKIN' HUGE! She wanted a home birth - 
and indeed, *had* one - but she had so much difficulty ejecting the 
thing they nearly had to take her to hospital.

It was a girl as well...

> My wife's c-section wasn't an emergency, but was urgent, so I was able 
> to be in the room while they did the operation.

Maybe you already went over this, but... why a c-section?

>> Jamie's second was born naturally, but... well Jamie is only a lil 
>> girl. Apparently there was rather a lot of ripping involved. o_O
> 
> Ouch.

Genitals + ripping = really ****ing suboptimal! ;_;

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