Categories: uncategorized
Date: 29 November 2004 16:21:11
feeling a bit of a let down just now.. and i need sympathy dammit!
usually i can't givev blood when the wagon comes round at work as it usually turns up just before or just after a race. when i heard it was coming today and couldnt find an excuse not to i decided i ought to.
faff no. 1 was filling in the form and reading the blurb.
faff no. 2 was going through the form question by question (why didn't we just do that to start with?)
faff no. 3 was having my finger pricked, no problem.
and then finally i got put on the couch bit to have my blood taken.
evidently i have a low pain threshold or something as it hurt quite a bit..... in response my body went into a bit of a shutdown mode and hid all my blood elsewhere.
unfortunately this blood could have been usefully going round my brain etc.
the staff werent exactly being reassuring for a first time donor and exchanged a little shake of the head before whipping the needle out & doing what i recognised from my recent first aid training as treatment for shock.
bloody hell.... do i feel useless or what?
so now i've lost an hour of my day have an aching arm and no moral benefit to show for it.. oh and a leaflet on 'feeling faint' reassuring me it's perfectly normal.
not terribly encouraging and i dont even have enough change to cheers myself up with a choccy bar.