Blood Drive sighting

[Sheldonrs]

I used to love donating blood. Always felt great afterward. Then I made the unforgivable mistake of coming out of the closet and having sex.

Doesn't matter how many blood test prove you're healthy; if you're gay and sexually active, even if you wrap yourself in 10 body condoms each time, you're not allowed to donate.

[Evil Queen]

I only ever gave blood once.

Probably never again too.

I wound up blacking out and the nurses got all upset about it. Seems the weight limit they have needs to be raised (I was 118 lbs when I went to donate, the minimum was 115). So they had to stop before the baggy was done being filled and wound up tossign the blood since it wasn't enough to use.

So I have no idea what my blood type is. But I would love to try again.

[AnaKhouri]

That sucks! Once when I was giving blood the girl (who I think was new) got the needle in the wrong way and had to jiggle it around inside my arm! That ***ing HURT! And I had a huge black bruise on my arm for weeks afterward. I think if you're giving up your time and your blood to help others you should at least get competent phlebotomists.

[Cat]

O- here....I should donate soon.

[PepperElf]

Well more like just kinda pissed me off.

my church had another blood drive this weekend - apparently they're timing them about every 2 and a half months. so yay! I like giving blood.

I get there early in the morning and it's a quiet turn out so far, almost no wait. I fill out the questions and, as usual, have to say what countries I've been in because of deployments... and eventually I'm done and cleared to donate.

Get on the table and state my name for the 100th time cos, you know someone else just snuck in and took my place for donating blood and they agree it's still me. I lie down on the table and the needle kinda hurt more than usual but o well, and i estimate it'll be done in 5 minutes cos my blood flows that fast when I'm donating.

"We're going to have to pull the needle."

? huh?

Turns out she'd used one of the older bags and there's one tube you're suppose to clamp off and she forgot to. So now one of the blood samples was open to air so the blood's contaminated.

and i can't donate again for 8 more weeks.

Yeah one pint of O+ down the drain.

sigh

i was nice to her but yeah i was a bit disappointed