Giving blood
Nov. 21st, 2004 04:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tarotgalJust came back from giving blood. As usual, it was a slow process. They had this electronic scale & monitor attached this time and it would start beeping if I went too slowly. Yikes! It beeped ALL the time for me. They kept coming over and looking worried and telling me to squeeze harder and squeeze more. I've NEVER squeezed anything so hard in all my life. Not those 5-10 second short squeezes but every 2-3 second and holding it for 5 seconds. LOL Then when it was done she picked up the blood and said "Wow, 14 minutes!" as though that was really long and I was thinking "Wow, under 20 minutes is fantastic for me!" They never believe me when I say it's hard to find a place in my left arm for the needle... or that I take a long time. But I've always finished and all, and everything went fine this time (I even ate and drank a LOT before going in preparation). But, yes, all is well. Apart from my hand which HURTS from all that hard squeezing! But, yep, felt good about it. Hope it helps someone!
