Nobody wants my blood, apparently. I tried to donate blood today and failed. Who fails donating blood? Me.
They interviewed me, checked my blood pressure and everything, and it was all cool. Then they stuck the needle in me, and things weren’t cool anymore.
“It’s in there, but it’s not working.”
Oh great.
Eventually someone came over to “adjust it” for me, which involves apparently jiggling the needle around while it’s in my arm. It did nothing but hurt, so I told them to please stop. It turns out my skin plugged up the end of the needle when they stuck it in, so it was all nice and in the vein, but not doing anything. Yay.
So I’m left with a feeling of soreness in my arm and weakness in my heart, having all the bad parts of blood donation, none of the good. I’ll try again in a week or so once my arm is healed. Despite my experience, I hope those of you who can do it are going out there and donating blood. Regardless of what you think about the attacks, there are still people who really need the help. It’s only been a month.
Gee...Word has it that a shopment of your hair made it to the east coast... You must make available a picture of the new do.
By the by I saw Memento this weekend... great just as you promised
Wilson
http://www.chellman.org/joe/12dollars.html is the place. I don't know if that url is going to link up so I'll do it again another way to be certain:
http://www.chellman.org/joe/12dollars.html
Posted by Joe at October 10, 2001 8:33 AMSo that's what 12 bucks gets you. What did you do with the $10 in change? :o)
Posted by Mark at October 17, 2001 8:01 AM
Hey Joe, nice haircut!
Thanks!
(um, yeah, this is a test of the mt commenting system)
Posted by Joe at October 9, 2001 4:17 PM