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.

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[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)