Rubber gloves

I worked at a gas station in my teen years and scrubbed my hands and arms with a scrub brush every day to get the grease off. I got a severe case of tonsillitis and became dehydrated (almost died). When they tried to start 2 IVs in my arms, they couldn’t poke the needles through my skin. The needles kept bending over before penetrating. As each corpsman (Philadelphia Naval Hospital) gave up, they went and got a more experienced one to try it. After 4 corpsman quit, they got 2 different doctors, who also failed. Then they got an anesthesiologist and he jabbed me with a hypodermic needle with Xylocaine in it to numb the area. Then he took the IV needle and worked it into the same hole that the narrower hypodermic needle made, by circling it around to stretch the skin. Then he just slipped it into the enlarged hole. There were about 20 sailors, corpsmen and doctors standing around watching this spectacle. They proclaimed me to be the son of Superman! It took about 28 tries before final success.