Don’t tell anyone at Fiji water that I wrote this, or else they’ll start sending me free water and make people think I’m on the take..
but last week when I had my infusion, I drank Fiji water before my blood draw–the one that usually takes like 7 draws for them to tap my vein–
..and she got into my vein on the first try.
Coincidence, right? That’s what I figured. Yet as a human phlebotomy pin cushion I can tell you I am always the problem child in the chemotherapy room. Lord help me if and when I actually need real chemo. Right now I’m getting a bone strengthener drug instead, but I still need to get it dripped, or infused, into my aching arm each month. And trying to get that dang needle into my veined-challenged arm is hell on the nurses, the phlebotomists, anyone passing by who hears my whimpered cries, and on whomever has to pay for the 5 needles it takes before the sixth one goes in.
So, due to my strange and exciting Fiji water experience of the day before, I drank another small bottle of Fiji H2O on the morning of my infusion. But I went into the Infusion Center prepared to get poked. It can sometimes take upwards of 5 tries for the poor nurses to strike hemoglobin-gold with me. So I sat down, and the nurse got the needle out, and we both prepared for repeated failure…
and she got it on the first try.
Not to be an undercover blogger/ Fiji water marketer–which I’m not–but honestly, I could be. Because that stuff saved my arm this month.
Could I prove that in a court of law? Absolutely not. And speaking of proof, the real proof will be next month–when I try my experiment again. It may fail miserably–I may drink a gallon of the stuff and have nothing but track marks and a bad day to show for it. If so, there goes 3 dollars for a bottle of water.
But if it is a success, my non-aching arm will be reaching for the Fiji water on a monthly basis–
and I’ll be and thanking my lucky stars I discovered that, for some reason, this South Pacific island hydration, collected and available on my grocery store shelf, is making a world of difference for one North American breast cancer fighter.
| Posted January 18th, 2012 by |  |
I feel your pain Ann. I had to have a port put in because my veins are so small and thin ( couldn’t be my waist right). the port worked very well for me, not for everyone. Keep it up girl. Always in this pink girls prayers. Louise from Maine
I hate that your arm aches.
thanks L. i talked to my doc about a port, but i really don’t wanna do that if i don’t have to. i am going to try my Fiji experiment next month and see if it works again. if it does, i’ll be their spokesperson! what a gift to all us vein-challenged fighters out there!