no veins here...update on my tests

Doc says all my poopie tests are negative. Good thing, right? Nope. It just means it's not my poopie's fault for making me feel sick. It means more tests! Nasty, hurting tests. Like the one I had to do today!

Today at the lab...

"Is Tootles here?"

Here I am.

"Have a seat right here. But Pops needs to sit with you so he can hold you."

Hold me? For what? I can sit in that funny looking chair by myself.

"Pops, please hold his hands to his chest and keep his arms straight."

I start to cry because I don't like it when I can't move on my own. Mums is telling me all is alright and Pops is squeezing my body. Why?

The man ties this rubber thingy on my left arm and flicks. Flicks, flicks, flicks.

"No good. Let me try the other arm."

So he ties the rubber thingy on my right arms and flicks again. Flick-feel, flick-feel. I still don't know what he's looking for. But after a few flicks, he calls the lady in the front. She comes and feels my right arm.

"How's it look on the other arm?"

So she ties the rubber thingy on my left arm again and does the same thing - flick and feel, flick and feel.

"This one is better than the other one."

Okay, what are you guys talking about, and why do you need to hold my arm so tight!

"Pops, please hold him."

As I heard her say those words, all I could feel was this sting on my arm. Being that I was already crying, I cried even harder. Calling Mums and just waiting for her to come and take me away from these bad people hurting me. But she didn't. All she kept saying was a little longer, Cuddly, a little longer. When longer ended, she finally picked me up, held me, rubbed my back and told me I was a trooper.

Mums says she's sorry for giving me her weak veins. The reason why the stranger man and stranger lady took so long was because they couldn't find my vein. And after they stuck with me that icky hurting needle, the vein they found wasn't good enought. So she needed to poke me again to finish my tests.

I did get a good thing from this though. A whole bag of marshmallows. First time I tried them and I love them! Soft, gooey white things are so yummy in my tummy.