shocked and speechless

"I have been shooting up all day," The cracked out middle aged woman says to Jasmine, "so don't use that arm!"

"Let her do her job!" One of the two police officers sitting in the chairs next to the stretcher yells in an authoratitive tone to the woman.

"What arm do you want me to use?" Jasmine Vanilla asks the messed up patient as she gathered up her supplies to start an IV line.

"I don't know... I have been shooting up in both of them all day," she laughs as she pulls up her sleeves.

Jasmine wondered how someone could administer IV injections of crack, cocaine, heroin or *god knows what* to themselves.

Jasmine uncapped the 20 gauge needle as she searched for a vein, expecting the worst but hoping for the best. She flashed back to a time when she had "The Crack Head" patient, seven foot tall African American male with veins as thick as electrical wire and just as hard, sediments of additives hardening his venous system. A literal hard reminder of the effects of illegal substances.

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"We just can't get a line in," Jasmine informed the Doctor.

"He has been stuck twice by each nurse here with no luck," the charge nurse informed the M.D. at the bedside of the said patient.

"But his veins look great," she said wondering how a team of nursing professionals could fail such a seemingly easy task.

"Yes, but they are as hard as rocks," Jasmine said with conviction, wondering how many cool points she lost for what seemed like a piece of cake.

"Sir, do you shoot up?" The doctor asks the patient.

"No, never," the patient lied as he readjusted himself on the stretcher which converted to a torture rack after being stuck about twenty times.

"I guess I will have to do a central line," the MD told the nurses as she walked out of the room and closed the door to the patient's room, "get the consent forms."

"Yes, Ma'am," Jasmine Vanilla said and turned to the charge nurse, "that guy is lying about the drugs huh?"

"Oh yeah." The charge nurse replied and walked away. "I wonder how he shoots up now, probably between his toes no doubt."

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Jasmine Vanilla feared that she would have trouble getting an IV into this drug abuser, the same way she had trouble with her former patient. She wondered if he still shoots up between his toes....or if he is even still alive.

The police officers watched as Jasmine held the needle ready to stick. Jasmine came to the conclusion that ER nurses and police officers have the same passion for danger, the unruly, adrenaline, and the unpredictable.

Jasmine half expected to get punched in the face by the out of control crack whore if she missed her target vein. The officers shifted their weight to the balls of their feet as they barely held onto the edge of their seats.

The patient began to smile and laugh, an unusual response from someone about to get poked by a sharp object.

As the initial poke penetrated the surface of this woman's bruised skin a groan erupted and she began to quiver. Jasmine being stuck in concentration advanced the catheter removed the needle, attached the microclave and flushed the vein out with normal saline.

"Ahhhhhhhhhhh!!! Oh my God!!" The woman yelled out a pleasurable sigh and began to shake.

"Did she just have an orgasm?" one of the police officer's asks the other.

"I think that she did," the police officer laughed, "there must have been some residual powder in that vein."

Jasmine just then realized what she had done....

Gave her patient an orgasm.

Creepy.....

She blushed and remained silent... professional.

"Did you just have an orgasm?" the police officer asked the woman.

"I forgot to tell you," she laughed and sighed, "I like needles, I am kind of a masochist, that and their must have been drugs left in that vein."

Jasmine Vanilla couldn't believe what had just occurred. She left the room completely shocked and speechless.

She tried to keep it to herself but the news spread fast as the police officers began to tell the other nurses.

"Jasmine gave her patient an orgasm!"