licia,CJ, I turn blue all over too when I'm stuck. Adding to that, my veins literally disappear the moment they know we are heading for blood work. A time or two back they took it from the top of my left hand and it looked as though it would never heal and stayed blue for well into the second month. After that, my doctor told me to always drink a 12 oz glass of water before going for blood work. It seemed to help. I think I'm the one who gets the new person to practice on.
i turn purple because I'm an easy bruser but because I have to take asprin that makes the brusing worse. This bruise I was talking about was from surgery on my arm to place an access \for dialysis. Fun wheeeee but it's purple now and starting to heal. and I'll be the old kades in no tome.
kades