Turns Out I’m a Little Bent
Maybe It Is Genetic
A visit to the eye doctor had me laughing! I was there for yet another type of eye test. This is the fourth or fifth visit. I’ve lost track, the doctor just can’t figure out what is wrong with my eye. The lovely technician looking at photos of the veins in my eyes says,
“Yah you are a little bent! Those are some wicked curly veins you’ve got.”
Not the first time I’ve heard about my bent veins, others have referred to my veins as curly and unruly. These unruly veins are in both my eyes and my arms.
I’m a phlebotomist’s nightmare. The record is 3 different nurses and two phlebotomists at the doctor’s office poking me 10 different times trying to tap a vein. They ultimately sent me away and had me go to the local hospital lab.
This bent-curly business got me thinking. Is it a genetic thing? I have very curly hair coming down my Irish side. Did my DNA just say,
“Hey let’s get bendy with it?”
Seriously even the roots of my teeth curl at the end! My teeth curl away from the x-ray camera so this unruly issue went undetected until a hellish month of failed root channels. The dentist, like the eye doctor, just couldn’t figure out what was wrong. The dentist finally decided to do an intentional re-implant of my…
