Fistula Bruising

This is what my arm looked like last night:

The purple spots near the elbow are bruises. It looks a bit worse this morning, but they still jabbed me in the same spot. I was instructed to put an ice pack on my arm today, then use a warm compress tomorrow to prevent the vein from hardening. I think this is from the screw up on Tuesday where the needle infiltrated the blood vessel and caused some internal bleeding. Fortunately, it just looks ugly and doesn’t hurt that much.

Also, the chaplain intern showed up today after disappearing for seven months. I’m not sure if he is still in school, or interning full-time. Unfortunately, his English didn’t get any better so I only got ~50% of our 10 minute conversation. It was difficult because I had to ask him to repeat a lot, and I don’t think he understood everything I said. Instead of asking me to repeat however, he just has a puzzled look, then keeps going with the conversation. He said he will be back to the clinic twice a week so maybe he’s making up for lost time.