When every day you make me go to hell and back with you

[venta]

I seem to be pioneering a new branch of science, which I have christened Human Bruise Chromatography.

At present, the roll call stands at:

1. A sort of gone-off green on one forearm, where I had a cannula fitted.
2. A rather tarry black behind my knee, which I think is just general bruising settling at the lowest point (I'm sitting down with my legs up a lot).
3. A frankly improbable highlighter-pen yellow slowly spreading over my shin.
4. A rather half-hearted purple-yellow starting to creep out from behind the various dressings (I have four separate operation sites).
5. A nice pallet of greens, reds and violets across my abdomen, from daily anti-DVT injections. (I think I'm getting better at not leaving huge marks, though!)

It's all very colourful! Need to collect some blues, though.

Comments

[bopeepsheep.livejournal.com]

I am a keen student of this particular branch of science. :D You may or may not recall the elbow-to-wrist bruising I wrote about a few years ago when even the experienced phlebotomist went right through a vein on attempt no.9...

Gravity does awesome things to bruises. The back injury that bruised down my thigh to my knee was amazingly impressive.

[venta.livejournal.com]

Ok, I see now I am a complete amateur :) I shall continue to dabble and submit my results to you!

[bopeepsheep.livejournal.com]

Well I am currently a theorist only, and hoping to stay that way. Your data is more current. :D

[d-floorlandmine.livejournal.com]

Do you have a pantone chart or colour scanner? Then you could chart the transitions over time ... [grin]

[venta.livejournal.com]

Well, I have been sadly lacking in photos to post to G+ of late... On second thoughts, maybe not :)

[d-floorlandmine.livejournal.com]

Heh.

(I wasn't suggesting actually posting the photos - just the hex codes ... [grin])

[damerell.livejournal.com]

Machines forming the Hermes email service at Cambridge used to all be named after bruise colours - they started with "black" and "blue", and I remember at least crimson, green, and puce.

Presently I have a good one caused by the practice nurse failing to find a suitable blood vessel.

[venta.livejournal.com]

Ooh, ouch, that sounds like a non-optimal way to acquire a bruise.

Was there any reason for bruisey mailservers? I keep thinking there must be a really bad pun than I'm missing.

[damerell.livejournal.com]

As I recall, it was just that it seemed like a good vein of memorable names.

You say "ouch" but actually it's quite painless, just spectacular - a haggled blood vessel near the surface is a good recipe for something that looks amazing but doesn't do anything much.

[venta.livejournal.com]

good vein

Bah!

quite painless

Ah. Good. I've been told that people "failing to find a suitable blood vessel" isn't pleasant. I wouldn't know, I have veins like 6-lane motorways.

[damerell.livejournal.com]

To be fair the actual needle-haggling is slightly painful, but I think one would have to have a Thing about needles to find it more than mildly annoying.

[lathany.livejournal.com]

That's an impressive collection. :-(

I think you should have words with that purple one, it really ought to be providing some blue shading. Or possibly the black one might go that way.