Thursday, September 22, 2011

Giving Blood

Well, today is going to be one of the busiest days I've had in a while. After my English class, I have to go study for a Math and Biology lab quiz I have today until Jana gets out of class. Then it's off to a quick lunch and then at 11:15 I'm going to give blood. After all that is over an done with I have my Biology lab, Math tutoring, Math class then I finally get to go home for awhile until I have to go to Bennetts to shoot with  Shelby and the boys. I'm not to worried about anything today except for the whole giving blood part. First of all I'm terrified of needles, but I learned to just get over it. I started giving blood my junior year when my school had a blood drive. I also gave blood my senior year, well I tried at least. After sitting there for a good 30 or 45 minutes my blood quit going through the tube connected to my arm. I tried and tried to make it go but it wouldn't, so the nurse had to take it out of my arm and throw away the bag because it wasn't all the way full. About a month before this happened I had my wisdom teeth taken out and then everything that could have possible gone wrong, went wrong. I had an allergic reaction to the medicine I was on all these bad things started happening. I was at the doctor 3 days in a row and by the last day I was sent to the emergency room, where I was stuck 7 times to get blood to test. Then of course trying to give blood at the blood drive and not being able to give a whole bag just made everything worse. So I'm a little nervous about giving blood today but hopefully I will be able to give all I can without any problems.

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