My poor baby had to endure well over 5 minutes of the nurse sticking the needle in both his arms.
He was screaming his head off, i and nurse no.2 were restraining him, in the end he was just yelling but had no tears at all, he was as rigid as a board on my lap.
Nurse no.2 was talking to him, and he had lost all eye contact and was so upset. And i was upset to see him like this, that i got 
and told her he is autistic you know, he is upset and he won't answer you! I don't usually come out with it in that way, but she was annoying me, it had written he has autism on his blood forms, she could see he wasn't answering so why the hell was she insisting!! grrr...
Then nurse no.1 announced that she hadn't managed to get the blood needed! 
She said the cold spray used to numb the skin can make the veins disappear! 
She said next time we'll have the cream.
So we have another appointment to repeat the ordeal next Monday.
I'm dreading it as he will remember the hospital and i suspect it will be worse.
DS was sobbing for 45 minutes after when we had got out of the room.
He got a new Space Chimp dvd for being a brave boy.
But i don't feel brave about having to go back next week. 