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In reply to the discussion: Please stop it with the hands. I am a 78-year-old former USAF Medic. Easier bruising is part of growing old and your... [View all]Ms. Toad
(37,654 posts)25. Hands are a last option for IV treatments.
My daughter (and a whole lot of other people I know) get regular infusions. The only time my daughter has had an infusion in her arm was when there was an IV already inserted there because she was hospitalized and that's where the ER department put the initial IV - so rather than start a second, they used the one that was there.
Her regular infusions (for about 8 years, at least every 3-8 weeks) are in her arm. Same story with other people I know getting infusions.
Not to mention that someone as vain as Trump would not voluntarily allow them to repeatedly bruise his hand when he could easily have the bruise in his arm where his clothing hides it.
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Please stop it with the hands. I am a 78-year-old former USAF Medic. Easier bruising is part of growing old and your... [View all]
usaf-vet
Thursday
OP
Bruising, fluid retention, foot dragging, asymmetrical facial features, an obvious urine catheter
Arazi
Thursday
#6
Not necessarily, but the new technology is very good at finding even the small spots. So unlike years ago the blood....
usaf-vet
Thursday
#14
That dandy hasn't done a day's work in his lifetime. He is weak and flabby from a life of dissipation and junk food.
usonian
Thursday
#9
The thing that scares me and confuses me. I have spent a life stopping to help the helpless. But would I or could I.....
usaf-vet
Thursday
#16
Or he's just banging his hands a lot, and he's older and bruises more easily. n/t
Ms. Toad
Thursday
#32