| Well,
you've come to the right page if you have all of those questions, because
I've become sort of an expert on the topic. When you have operations or
some medical problems where you can't eat for awhile, IVs let your body
get the water it needs. The hard part is that your veins are inside your
body, not on the outside. That means that to get an IV, someone has to
put a needle through your skin to find one of those tunnels.
Sure
wish I had a zipper on my skin, so that I wouldn't need the needle part,
but it's not the worst thing in the world. The good news is that once the
vein is found and the IV is connected to it through the skinny tube, you
can't even feel it. Really! By the way, when you get better and don't need
to have an IV any more, the nurse takes it out, and you'll be happy to
know that taking it out doesn't hurt at all! |
