Saving Lives

yesterday i saved up to three lives by donating some blood. my time to donate was 10:40 and i was anxiously awaiting all day. three of my friends were supposed to donate during first hour and all three came back not able to donate. el cabrito and rbetta and adam, he doesn't have a blog for me to link you to, all came back because they weren't able to donate. cabrito is a sickly child no matter what he tries to tell you. rbetta had too high of a pulse. so did adam. that made me nervous, what if my pulse was too high,i don't want to be turned away because my pulse was too high. off to math class i went, still worried that my pulse would be too high. onto physics and then finally it was 10:35 so i got all my stuff together and left. filled out my paperwork and joined the line waiting. while in line i saw my brother, he was just finishing giving blood. while waiting in line i was joined by rbetta and adam, they were going to try again. and then it was my turn to go get screened.

finger prick. this was an evil fingerprick, and it is still kinda tender. blood pressure, fine. heart rate, a okay. hemoglobin, little low so let's try again, second try was great. and then my finger didn't want to stop bleeding so instead of just a bandaid i got the cotton swab wrapped under the bandaid, rendering my right ring finger completely useless. okay cool. wait in line some more and then it is my turn to go sit on the chair and actually give blood. she didn't miss my vein and it suprisingly didn't really get hurt to get stabbed in the arm by that needle. after finishing i ate my cookie, drank my juice, grabbed another water bottle and went back to class. i started to work on my assingment and then i started to get really, really warm. uncomfortably warm. and kinda dizzy, so i got up and told my teacher that i was going to go to the nurse. apparently i was also really quite pale so she told me that i better get someone to walk to the nurses office with me. well, stumble stumble, hit a chair, run into haley and then i passed out. oops. so not only did my whole class see that, but so did all the people in the library. embarrassing.

turns out i wasn't the only one that passed out so i don't feel as embarrassed. i just had to drink and eat a lot of sugary foods for the rest of the day to keep myself standing upright. i was also not allowed to do any strenuous activity. unless i have some super rare blood type, or just one in high demand i'm probably not going to be giving blood anytime soon. but i did save up to three lives and i fufilled my SNHS servie project. happy face. : )