Cannula injections (very slight rant)

[oilandwater]

Had a cannula inserted in the back of my hand today for pain relief and to make me drowsy.
When the injections were pumped in to the cannula the doctor was surprised that a
lump appeared on my wrist. I'm presuming this was the pain relief fluid.
If so this explains to me why I didn't get and pain relief and felt every bloody thing going on!
I don't think the cannula was in a vein. Is this possible?

[oilandwater]

Bugger! I suppose once he pumped them in, he couldn't really do anthything about it. He even checked my other wrist to see if there was a lump on that one. I think he knew as he started to smooth out the lump. I've had one before and never felt the drugs being pumped in, this time I felt all three.

[oilandwater]

I'm getting mad about this.
Not mad down the compensation route, just bloody mad that I had all the pain.
Traumatic at the time, I begged them for gas and air, that helped a bit.

[oilandwater]

Yes I was asked if I objected if three students could observe. I said no problem, they must have thought I was a right woose moaning in pain asking for pain killers. At least I didn't have your situation thank goodness.

[oilandwater]

How is your knee now, and did you feel any pain, in other words, did your pain killers find the vien?

[oilandwater]

You are a brave man. I couldn't do it. (A nurse did mine)
What annoys me more now though, the doctor knew what had happened yet he still put the other two injections in, knowing that they were going into tissue and not the vien. Then! He carried on with the procedure knowing the pain killers wouldn't work, they would just slowly disperse into soft tissue.
Hey ho! Never again, I'll say something if it does. Trouble is being at a dissavantage in a hospital, you want help from them.

[oilandwater]

Well I don't blame you then for doing it yourself (still think you're brave though.)

[oilandwater]

I don't blame the nurse in the least. I'm just very angry withe the doctor, he saw that the cannula wasn't in correctly when he injected the sedation and all the fluid went into my flesh (painfully) resulting in a lump. He tried to stroke the lump to disperse the fluid knowing it wasn't in the vein, but he still injected another two, then carried on with the treatment as he was running late, he said he was short of time. Great!

[oilandwater]

The_Doc said:

and you lot get excited about putting a plastic tube into another tube under the skin.

wait until it's time to saw completely across a bone or hold a rapidly beating heart directly in your hands.

Venflon, shmenflon, p'ah!

only joking.....

Please don't take my heart out or my leg off untill my cannula is in correctly.