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Are any of our members faint of heart when it comes to blood? I used to be more so than I am now.

According to this article, it qualifies as an actual phobia but I don't think I carried it that far. The sight of my own blood has never fazed me ... it was always the sight of someone else bleeding that used to make me feel woozy but not to the point of actually fainting. I always attributed it to some form of extreme empathy on my part but it sounds like research points to a possible evolutionary response to perceived danger. Did they just call me chicken? :-3 I prefer my theory!

The sight of blood doesn't bother me quite as much these days and I guess it was just one of those things I outgrew over time.

Any one else here feel distress at the sight of blood?

Why Do Some People Faint When They See Blood? | Popular Science

I have 2 brothers who faint at the sight of a needle. I can make them woozy just bringing up needles or shots or having blood drawn. It can be quite funny.

Doesn't bother me in the slightest, mine or anyone elses'.

Growing up on a horse ranch with barbed wire (horrors!)

fences, I guess I saw enough bloody incidents (and

horses can lose a LOT of blood!) that it just became

a ho-hum thing. Also have a very cool head in an

emergency. Only later do I 'collapse'. I remember an

old show about life in the E.R. that showed real stuff,

and I could sit and eat a meal and watch! My husband

did not understand that at all.

What DOES get me? I can't for some reason look at

people's mouths/dentistry. Remember back when the

media was constantly running the footage of Saddam Hussein's

mouth exam? Egads, was I ever creeped out!

I have a strong stomach. S.hit, p.iss, cat vomit, doggy diahorra you name It, I've cleaned It up.

Needles don't bother me In the slightest either.

But.... show me a pile of human vomit and I'll throw up.

I can handle the sight of a pool of blood on a floor or a pin prick spot of blood on a finger, but I think that if it were pumping out of a person's jugular or femoral artery I might feel differently. :-3

YZGI;1436516 wrote: I have 2 brothers who faint at the sight of a needle. I can make them woozy just bringing up needles or shots or having blood drawn. It can be quite funny.


Count me in with your brothers!! I doubt I'll ever get used to needles.

valerie;1436517 wrote: Doesn't bother me in the slightest, mine or anyone elses'.

Growing up on a horse ranch with barbed wire (horrors!)

fences, I guess I saw enough bloody incidents (and

horses can lose a LOT of blood!) that it just became

a ho-hum thing. Also have a very cool head in an

emergency. Only later do I 'collapse'. I remember an

old show about life in the E.R. that showed real stuff,

and I could sit and eat a meal and watch! My husband

did not understand that at all.

What DOES get me? I can't for some reason look at

people's mouths/dentistry. Remember back when the

media was constantly running the footage of Saddam Hussein's

mouth exam? Egads, was I ever creeped out!


My husband was tightening a barbed wire fence about 10 years ago and in the process got it a little too tight. It snapped and flew back towards him, piercing him in the crook of an arm. It wasn't a cut, it was a clean stab and it hit a vein. Blood began to spurt out in the air with every pulse beat. He was so calm about it ... just applied pressure and tied a bandana around it. Outwardly, I was trying to be calm & helpful but inwardly I was crashing and burning! I took him to the emergency room and I don't remember them giving him stitches but they cleaned it and gave him a tetanus shot.

High tensile fences seem to be popular these days. They've got to be easier to work with!

oscar;1436520 wrote: I have a strong stomach. S.hit, p.iss, cat vomit, doggy diahorra you name It, I've cleaned It up.

Needles don't bother me In the slightest either.

But.... show me a pile of human vomit and I'll throw up.


It's funny how certain things make us react and not others!

jones jones;1436571 wrote: I can handle the sight of a pool of blood on a floor or a pin prick spot of blood on a finger, but I think that if it were pumping out of a person's jugular or femoral artery I might feel differently. :-3


JJ, I never knew it actually spurted like that until the incident I mentioned above. Good thing it wasn't an artery ... that would have been even more exciting!!

I think this is on-topic Tabs, if not we can get it deleted ...

An acquaintance of mine was playing with one of his kids in their living room. They had one of those very large coffee tables with a plate glass top in the middle of the room.

Anyway this guy was like backing away and his boy was chasing him and he fell backwards onto the table ... the guy not the kid. He smashed through the plate glass table top and severed not one, but both the femoral arteries in his groin.

I wasn't there thank goodness, but his father told me that in five minutes he was dead from loss of blood ...

Now whenever I see one of those tables even in a furniture store, I get the cold shivers.

jones jones;1436589 wrote: I think this is on-topic Tabs, if not we can get it deleted ...

An acquaintance of mine was playing with one of his kids in their living room. They had one of those very large coffee tables with a plate glass top in the middle of the room.

Anyway this guy was like backing away and his boy was chasing him and he fell backwards onto the table ... the guy not the kid. He smashed through the plate glass table top and severed not one, but both the femoral arteries in his groin.

I wasn't there thank goodness, but his father told me that in five minutes he was dead from loss of blood ...

Now whenever I see one of those tables even in a furniture store, I get the cold shivers.


You're good, JJ ... I'm not a stickler for staying completely on topic! That's grisly about your friend's son not to mention tragic and I'm glad you weren't there also. I've heard that the glass top tables can be dangerous, especially if children are in the household.

tabby;1436584 wrote: My husband was tightening a barbed wire fence about 10 years ago and in the process got it a little too tight. It snapped and flew back towards him, piercing him in the crook of an arm. It wasn't a cut, it was a clean stab and it hit a vein. Blood began to spurt out in the air with every pulse beat. He was so calm about it ... just applied pressure and tied a bandana around it. Outwardly, I was trying to be calm & helpful but inwardly I was crashing and burning! I took him to the emergency room and I don't remember them giving him stitches but they cleaned it and gave him a tetanus shot.

High tensile fences seem to be popular these days. They've got to be easier to work with!


Whew, I originally didn't read "crook" . Now that gave me the willy's.

tabby;1436584 wrote: My husband was tightening a barbed wire fence about 10 years ago and in the process got it a little too tight. It snapped and flew back towards him, piercing him in the crook of an arm. It wasn't a cut, it was a clean stab and it hit a vein. Blood began to spurt out in the air with every pulse beat. He was so calm about it ... just applied pressure and tied a bandana around it. Outwardly, I was trying to be calm & helpful but inwardly I was crashing and burning! I took him to the emergency room and I don't remember them giving him stitches but they cleaned it and gave him a tetanus shot.

High tensile fences seem to be popular these days. They've got to be easier to work with!


Wow, something similar (although not as dire!) happened to me years ago, putting up barbed wire fence.

I was holding a crowbar against a post to stretch while Dad put in the staples, crowbar slipped and

TWANG the end of that wire whipped around somehow, and gashed me on the left elbow. I still have

the scar. No stitches or tetanus shot here, back then (60's) we didn't usually head to the doctor

"for every little thing"!