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I did a power red donation. Just in time my iron was way up there.
The Phlebotomist sticks me and somehow I start bleeding before he gets it right. Clean up on isle one.
Then half way though, the machine alarms and he says. "I have never seen that before" (the shit you don't want to hear during anything medical)
The machines says there is a spill. Someone else comes and straightens things out. I finally finish.
I leave and look down and my arm and I am leaking through the gauge and when I pull it off I have at least 2 ccs of blood under the skin. I re bandage everything and it all subsides and the blood dissipates.
Today my vein looks like someone jammed a fork in it but the black and blue spot is far smaller. I think I will live.
Apparently Red Cross is seriously short supplied again for those that donate. I urge you to donate. I might be your kid that needs it some day.
The Phlebotomist sticks me and somehow I start bleeding before he gets it right. Clean up on isle one.
Then half way though, the machine alarms and he says. "I have never seen that before" (the shit you don't want to hear during anything medical)
The machines says there is a spill. Someone else comes and straightens things out. I finally finish.
I leave and look down and my arm and I am leaking through the gauge and when I pull it off I have at least 2 ccs of blood under the skin. I re bandage everything and it all subsides and the blood dissipates.
Today my vein looks like someone jammed a fork in it but the black and blue spot is far smaller. I think I will live.
Apparently Red Cross is seriously short supplied again for those that donate. I urge you to donate. I might be your kid that needs it some day.
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