I donated blood at a blood drive at my church today, and it went much better than my Halloween attempt. The guy doing the needle insertion popped it right into my vein, and I pumped out a pint in 5 minutes. As I was pumping blood, I heard the phlebotomist tell another guy, “Great start to the day — hard stick, got it on the first try.” I hit my 2-gallon mark today for Puget Sound Blood Center. I think if there hadn’t been so many botched needle insertions in my past, I’d be on about 4 gallons by now. Ah well. Let’s hope it goes this smoothly again next time.
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You are so killing me right now. I’m about to faint.
Nice job! I’m so proud of you for being such a good blood donor all these years… I’m imagining that universal O- blood of yours has saved lives in an ER or ambulance or something.
And Mr. Phlebotomist, I salute you!
Glad you didn’t mess this one up, like countless others have…
Good job! Cherise and I went on Saturday. She was done and they were still fishing around for my vein. They never found one. Lame.
I think I have lucked out with my phlebotomists lately which is helping me to get over my dislike for them.
nice! we miss ya