The warmth is the freakiest part for me, but otherwise I can survive. tTHe first time I gave blood, it started bleeding again when I was down in the canteen area eating cookies. Everyone else freaked out, but I was just "Oh dear. Give me some of those napkins, would ya?" And that was where I learned from a helpful nurse that saline solution takes blood out of clothing. :D
And I had this really awesome bruise for weeks afterward and I could squick people by showing them. I grossed out one friend so much that she had to put her lunch down half-eaten and refused to finish it.*
But I haven't given blood since I was in college - the last time I did it, someone passed out in the middle of giving - because I've been in the UK for over three months during a particular window of time, so they're afraid I have mad cow.
Moo.
* Blood and needles doen't bother me. But spit in front of me and it's hard to keep from throwing up. I don't understand my own reflexes.
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Fri, May. 5th, 2006 01:28 am (UTC)And I had this really awesome bruise for weeks afterward and I could squick people by showing them. I grossed out one friend so much that she had to put her lunch down half-eaten and refused to finish it.*
But I haven't given blood since I was in college - the last time I did it, someone passed out in the middle of giving - because I've been in the UK for over three months during a particular window of time, so they're afraid I have mad cow.
Moo.
* Blood and needles doen't bother me. But spit in front of me and it's hard to keep from throwing up. I don't understand my own reflexes.