Blood donation

As you can probably tell from the title this blog is about blood donation, which is what I did today and well... it was an expirence.

I am no novice at blood donation, at least I've done it as much as I can for someone of my age... So this was my second time and everything was pretty standard, drink a large amount of water, read a leaflet and get checked in. But then things started going a bit wrong.

First they do a pin prick and get some blood to see if you are anaemic  However the blood in my finger did not want to come out one bit as so therefore they pricked another finger with a bigger needle, this stung quite a lot and made me feel sad...

 My poor fingers :( 

Luckily I passed this level and got to go onto lever 2. Blood donation.

This was all fine and dandy apart from the fact that the guy seemed unsure where to put the needle and kept talking about my arm to other nurses... Though this lead me tell him to stop talking about my arm because it has feelings and thus some Blood Donation banter ensued. My blood really didn't want to come out and so I had to do all these exercises in order to get it flowing so I looked a bit silly but aah well.

Then you get to sit down and eat loads of biscuits and drink juice because you've been such a good person... Unnaturally however this is where things started going badly wrong and this conversation will give you the gist:

Nurse: 'Hey would you like to book an appointment for next time?'
Me: 'Yeah sure I'd love to'
Nurse: 'Okay do you have your slip with the code?'
Me (getting confused and loosing my hearing/sight: 'No they didn't give me back the... errr. thingy thing...'
Nurse: 'What do you mean'
Me: 'Hold that thought, I think I'm going to faint so could I possible lie down here?'

Yep I politely started to faint and but luckily I did in a sensible manner so I didn't loose conciousness  ! This was so embarrassing as I had to keep lying there for a while with a screen around me like some major incident. To be fair the guy explained to me that in ratio I gave more blood than most as they take the same amount from me as they do for a 16 stone man.

I then got up, ate a penguin bar and then politely lay down before almost fainting again! (I know I'm such a pro at this!)

Though I would still do it again without a doubt and booked my next appointment whilst lying on the ground.

In short, Give Blood. It may not be fun but it saves lives and is generally a good thing to do! Plus you get a cool sticker and a cool plaster!