At least that's the newest rumor going round the internet and e-mail system.
Claim: Women in childbirth with tattoos on their lower backs should not receive anesthetic via epidural injection.
The rumor is if you have a tat on your lower back and you're pregnant, you can't have an epidural (the anesthetic via your spine). Purportedly, doctor's won't poke a needle through a tat for fear of dragging the ink into the spinal fluid.
*maidink shakes her head*
What scares me is that people believe this crap without checking, let's say, an expert on the subject. Oh no. It's so much better to believe an e-mail that has been forwarded from about five hundred people. Yeah, now that's gospel! "My friend's co-worker's sister's best friend's boyfriend's aunt is a medical technician so she KNOWS what she is talking about."
????????
Well thank goodness for e-mail or else I wouldn't know what the hell is going on in this world!
11 comments:
I love how people fall for these damn things.
PT Barnum was right!
Well there goes that idea!
okay so while it came from an email I am having to think that logically it makes sense, maybe, without thinking about it too hard. But being a man and THANKFULLY never having to go through the act of childbirth it is one of those, don't think about it too hard questions.
I have a tattoo on my spine!
If you decide to get a tattoo on your lower back, are they allowed to set a child on your spine?
What? I'm just askin' is all.
Pax - Some of my friends are PT Barum fodder. It's a shame, really.
Spikey1 - It's okay, Spike. I'm sure you can still get a tat. I know you guys get sympathy pains but they won't give you an epidural during delivery, too.
Britt - The ink actually becomes part of the skin. It can't reliquify and enter the blood stream. Now if preggers gets her tat two weeks before delivery, that could be a different story. But the last time I checked, I think doctors (and tat artists) frown on that.
Snicks - No uterus, no comment!
SID - Well, just don't get pregnant and all will be fine!
Tony - ?????
What??? Sweetie, I read your comment FOUR times and I still don't get it. Are you still swooning from meeting your manhunk, Duncan Sheik?
Sangron - That's not so crazy. I mean, why else do they keep birds and lizards seperate at the pet store? Sheesh! ;)
TJ - I don't know if I would have killed, but some rather colourful words would have been flying.
By the time you get to the hospital, you'll probably already have gotten HIV from a needle concealed in a gas pump handle or pay phone coin return, anyway. But then you can forward some email 10 times and Bill Gates will give you a bunch of money, and that will cover your medical bills.
A better warning might be about what that tramp-stamp'll look like when you're 65, but why worry?
BELINDA?!?!?! TRAMP STAMP?!?!? (you're allowed to think it, but to type it out loud!?!?)
I don't know what I meant, either. So..... bite me.
Belinda - And don't forget that child in that third world country who desparately needs your help and has been missing for over fifteen years.
Celena - It's okay. belinda is allowed to let herself go onthis blog (but don't tell Alex ...shhhhh)
Tony - *CHOMP*
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