(explanation: HbA1C measures the average sugar in the last few months, ABG is arterial blood gas, when somebody needs to measure the ABG things are not good. Worse is when said arterial blood gas needs to be taken from the leg, near the groin. ABG can also me measured from a prick on a finger. Anyway there are very clever things they can measure and say whether things are compensated or not and more or less why)
well maybe you hurt them for a little while but then you are helping them from much worse things, better a little pain than to wait until they are unconscious imho
but going back to the thread who knows what she calls wrist, maybe her "elbow pit" is so full of fat that they couldn't find a vein or they would need a deep vet cow needle or just nothing would stay there and the only place they could find a vein was her hand
but in any case she seems to me a moo-thing (cows are nice animals) who posts about people wiping her and complains about fat while eating snacks and has hissy fits about haydurs.