nagia: (vs; joshua; alone in the graveyard)
Neijia ([personal profile] nagia) wrote2010-01-16 12:04 am

Beef stew for breakfast tomorrow

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.
trickster: ((uru) giggle)

[personal profile] trickster 2010-01-16 07:03 pm (UTC)(link)
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)