GIP: Blood Donation
Jun. 16th, 2005 07:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
soc_puppetI felt I needed to immortalize my mother's words in icon form. It's not much, especially since I can't animate yet (though I think I may learn soon, at the rate this is going...) but it works for now.
Am back from donating ^_^ It went rather well. It was different than the last organization I donated with--they were a lot more... I dunno. They were concerned about different things. There were a few places they weren't as organized, but they were all nice.
When I said I was feeling 'a bit faint' from blood loss, they had me lay down, bend my knees up (no foot lifting device, sadly) and pampered me to no end ^_^;;; My 'recovery' took almost half an hour, I think. The other people, though, were a lot more trusting of the boundless energy of teenagers. (I refuse to say that they were more trusting of our judgement.) They brought me Pepsi in a cup with a bendy-straw ^^; Which was good, because I was feeling a bit queesy; thank God I didn't tell them that, or I would've been there another twenty minutes! (Please note that I am unaware of any serious medical condition that may be characterized by these symptoms, so any bad judgement on my part is out of ignorance.) The queesyness passed with the faint feeling, in a very short time, though they didn't seem to believe me when I said I was feeling better -_-a They were a bit clogged, too, so I would have thought they would've wanted me to move as soon as I could. I think they underestimated my recovery time. The ice pack was very much appreciated, though.
Still, I think I liked the other group better. I couldn't say why for certain, though I think it could have something to do with the fact that they felt more like a professional medical team than this group. (<--- is not one who is uncomfortable around doctors. Or dentists, for that matter. In fact, when she was three (according to her mother), she wanted to be a dentist when she grew up. How strange is that?)
Anyway, am back now. My arm (still) kinda stings from where they stuck me (another point against them, I'm afraid) but they used less bandage than the other group, so at least I'm not down two arms, as opposed to just the one.
Left arm, get better soon! ;_;
Am back from donating ^_^ It went rather well. It was different than the last organization I donated with--they were a lot more... I dunno. They were concerned about different things. There were a few places they weren't as organized, but they were all nice.
When I said I was feeling 'a bit faint' from blood loss, they had me lay down, bend my knees up (no foot lifting device, sadly) and pampered me to no end ^_^;;; My 'recovery' took almost half an hour, I think. The other people, though, were a lot more trusting of the boundless energy of teenagers. (I refuse to say that they were more trusting of our judgement.) They brought me Pepsi in a cup with a bendy-straw ^^; Which was good, because I was feeling a bit queesy; thank God I didn't tell them that, or I would've been there another twenty minutes! (Please note that I am unaware of any serious medical condition that may be characterized by these symptoms, so any bad judgement on my part is out of ignorance.) The queesyness passed with the faint feeling, in a very short time, though they didn't seem to believe me when I said I was feeling better -_-a They were a bit clogged, too, so I would have thought they would've wanted me to move as soon as I could. I think they underestimated my recovery time. The ice pack was very much appreciated, though.
Still, I think I liked the other group better. I couldn't say why for certain, though I think it could have something to do with the fact that they felt more like a professional medical team than this group. (<--- is not one who is uncomfortable around doctors. Or dentists, for that matter. In fact, when she was three (according to her mother), she wanted to be a dentist when she grew up. How strange is that?)
Anyway, am back now. My arm (still) kinda stings from where they stuck me (another point against them, I'm afraid) but they used less bandage than the other group, so at least I'm not down two arms, as opposed to just the one.
Left arm, get better soon! ;_;
