Of Tiny Needle and even Tinier Vein

Went for a health screening today.  Yes, it's high time since I can't remember the last time I had one.  Well, it's either due to a poor memory or simply too long ago for it to stick in this old head.  As always the nurse had a hard time trying to look for my vein to take the blood sample. While other people may have 'rivers' of a vein on their arms, mine are more akin to those streams or rather the little brooks ... too tiny even for the tiniest needle! So after some jabbing on the poor vein on my arm without much luck, I had to suffer some more jabs on the top of my hand where the vein is a lot bigger and thankfully after that, the precious drops just trickled easily into the test tube.  "This is how I usually get blood sample from babies", the nurse had to rub it in.  Ah well ... as long as it gets done, any way is fine with me.  Praying that the result will be fine too.

The first jab which was unsuccessful

Finally, some blood