Does the sight of blood bother you?

[Tim Hancock]

A little cut does not do it to me.... It is when it is a large injury and I see the blood pulsing out of me that I start to get lightheaded.

[David Inc.]

Originally Posted by cantdrv55

When I get a cut and bleed, I can patch myself up. When I see anyone else get injured and there a loss of blood involved, even on TV, I swear I can “feel” it in my nuts and I have to look away or I’ll get woozy. No way could I work in the medical field.

Exactly the same reaction. Fixing my own wounds? Fine. Hearing a doctor discuss a surgery with detail on cuts? Passing out.

I feel ill just saying this, **** this thread!!!

[Shaun @ Tru6]

Not at all. Neat story. I was cutting up a car years ago, was climbing out of a pile of sheetmetal rubble when I slipped and fell. Ragged piece of metal went right through the skin in my forearm, cutting it neatly down to the muscle fascia about an inch long. Skin split open and blood was coming out and little globules of something yellowish were here and there. It was pretty cool to see the muscle. Bled pretty well but no big deal.

Haven't seen much of other people's blood but also NBD.

[flatbutt]

No, not unless it is squirting across the room!

[stevej37]

Nope...but I do notice it raises my BP if it's bleeding good.....which makes it harder to clot up.

[MBAtarga]

I've not really had many issues with my own small injuries. I did slice open the web of my hand with a woodworking chisel several years back and got slightly woozy from it.

I donate blood regularly at Red Cross Blood Drives. I definitely look the other way and avoid looking at the bag of blood. There's just something mental about me knowing that the red stuff doesn't belong out of my body!

[gacook]

My own blood, no matter how bad doesn't bother me. If I caused the blood on someone else, that doesn't bother me.

Bleeding I didn't cause does for some reason. I'm weird.

[pavulon]

A bit when dealing with kids.

[flatbutt]

Originally Posted by pavulon

A bit when dealing with kids.

Absolutely and totally understandable.

[Tobra]

Blood, not so much. Mostly, I like to see blood, because I have a lot of patients that are vasculopaths, with sketchy vascular. I am happy if they bleed through the dressing.


I want some peppermint oil or mentholatum on my mask if we are talking about wet gangrene though.

[Ralph3.]

Was single for many years, got married and had two daughters. There isn't any bodily fluid you can't handle.

[DavidI]

Not at all. It's the insects attacking a freshly dead body that creeps me out. They are on the body within 1 minute of death.

[masraum]

Originally Posted by DavidI

Not at all. It's the insects attacking a freshly dead body that creeps me out. They are on the body within 1 minute of death.

Yep, that's super creepy. What you've seen and dealt with, I can't even imagine. Just seeing animals from time to time is bad enough.

[devodave]

Not sure why, but the sight doesn't, but something else, the smell maybe, and I will go woozy. Back in 7th grade, went to visit the research hospital where they had a dog on a heart-lung machine. Everyone in the class crowded around the operating table, so a I walked around checking out all of the equipment first. Next thing I know, I start feeling overheated and faint, went into the hallway and couldn't push the swinging doors open before tunnel vision had me crumpled to the floor. This surprised me as I would read medical journals while eating lunch and wasn't bothered at all! A couple of other similar instances since then...I'm not cut out for that type of work!

[VINMAN]

Between cutting people out of cars and stuff with the fire dept, and my job with the Medical Examiner, dealing with suicides, jumpers, train strikes, homicides, etc...., blood doesn't faze me in the slightest bit.

Now puke or poo-poo... That's a whole different story!

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[A930Rocket]

Originally Posted by MBAtarga

I've not really had many issues with my own small injuries. I did slice open the web of my hand with a woodworking chisel several years back and got slightly woozy from it.

I donate blood regularly at Red Cross Blood Drives. I definitely look the other way and avoid looking at the bag of blood. There's just something mental about me knowing that the red stuff doesn't belong out of my body!

I’ve probably given 5 gallons of blood over the years. I don’t know why, but I always hold the bag of blood before they take it away. It’s weird to feel the warmth and weight of it.

[Noah930]

No.

There's a saying in surgery: All bleeding stops eventually.

[NY65912]

No.

I had to assist a worker who had a 20 ton press come down on his hand. I was visiting my friends shop and he comes running into the office spewing blood. I tightly wrapped his hand in a towel had him raise his arm above his head and held it tight against his shoulder with the forearm bent at the wrist. No one else in the shop would even come close to the guy. I had someone take over and rushed him to medical care. The doc and nurse said he would have bled out by the time EMS arrived.

The worst was when I was coming home from a day at the track and was on a 2 way Ave in Brooklyn when a young man who was "hitching" a ride on the tail of a big box truck fell off when the truck hit a bump. He flew backwards and landed on the back of his head. When I jumped out to assist it was not a pretty site. His skull cracked open, there was brain matter and the blood was just pouring out. I am haunted by that image. I stayed with him, nothing I could do but try to comfort.

[GH85Carrera]

Originally Posted by A930Rocket

I’ve probably given 5 gallons of blood over the years. I don’t know why, but I always hold the bag of blood before they take it away. It’s weird to feel the warmth and weight of it.

Geezer voice "Back in the old days of Apheresis donation the used both arms! So I had a needle stuck in both arms, and I could not even scratch my nose. It took 90 minutes, so they would play a movie for me of my choice on the VCR. So one arm fed a machine that separated the component in the blood they needed, and they pumped back in the stuff they did not need into my other arm. Now it is just one arm for both so it has gotten better." End geezer voice. I got a free T-shirt, and some cookies as my payment.

I have donated 6 gallons total over the years. Then they had a false positive for Chagas disease. They tested it again on the spot, and it was negative. But one false positive was enough for them to ban me from donating. A few years later a hematologist doctor was doing a study on Chagas disease and he asked me to come in and have some blood drawn for more testing, and they asked me to bring one of my neighbors. We both had blood drawn, and the CDC and an independent lab tested our blood and of course found no evidence of Chagas. One false positive, and I am off the list. They asked my neighbor come in as a control to make sure it was not something endemic to our neighborhood. He has lived here for 30+ years and I am the FNG at 26 years.

[cantdrv55]

Holy crap. I can’t finish reading some of your stories, fellas.