Beef stew for breakfast tomorrow

[nagia]

Tomorrow, I donate blood for the first time since I left GreenLife. I'm a little nervous.

What if my iron's low again? What if my blood sugar's high? What if I contracted some sort of horrible disease that's been gestating in my system for eight months and has finally burst like a hideous pustule, flooding my veins in vileness and sickness and blood-rejectability?

Worse, what if I get so dehydrated or hypoglycemic that something awful happens?

Almost as bad, what if the people at the Cleveland blood bank are a bunch of incompetent nincompoops and do something awful like fuck up the blood-draw and end up causing the blood to spill over under my skin? I've heard that can happen. Leaves your entire arm bruised for quite a while--like weeks.

Comments

[trickster]

I love your tags.

Don't worry! I'm sure the whole thing will go well. Hopefully the people at the blood bank are more competent than volunteers in high schools or something, so if anything does happen they'll be ready for it. |Dd

[nagia]

XD Thanks. Tag-bombing is my specialty.

And yes, it all went very well! My blood sugar, blood pressure, and iron were all fine. I did not have any obvious terrible diseases (there's always the blood tests. I don't think I could have hep b or hep c, and know I don't have AIDS/HIV or syphillis, but on those first two, you never know for sure, right?)

[trickster]

That's good to hear! It's also nice to know whether you're healthy or not. I guess donating blood is one way to find out. |Da

(And I know what you mean by worrying about the first two. I'll admit, I'm always concerned about that as well. OTL)