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Something to make you smile😊 I normally need venous draw to get blood out it's so slow.

Just done a spot card test for vitamin D. The lancets provided are brilliant, it took me five minutes to stem the flow.

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Haha! Sod's Law and all that!

Same thing happened to my husband doing the dot card....."It's meant to be a smallish dot, love. Not the Texas Chainsaw Massacre". :D

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Yep, you would think I'd cut my finger off !!!!

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