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I don't really know about today. I was scheduled to donate blood today at 10:30 in the schools lobby and I went. I was nervous as hell.
Mack went with me for moral support but had to stay behind the donation doors. I was sad and whining "NOOO STAY WITH ME!" like I was some pathetic toddler.
So I eventually went by myself. Hella nervous. This woman named Nan took me in this private room where she asked me a whole bunch of questions and took a sample of my blood. She declared I was ready to take my blood drawn and led me to the next room where all the chairs were set up. She sat me down on a big black chair (Which was REALLY comfortable), and some funny dude (I forgot his name), asked me, "Is this your first time donating?"
I whispered back "Yes"
He laughed and said "Good, this is my first time with the needle!"
And I was like "Oh god please tell me your kidding"
He was all "lol yeah I'm just kidding! Got ya there!"

So he sanitized my arm, and poked.
And poked.
And poked again.
This nurse came by and was all "Do you need help?"
And he was all "Yes D:"
So she came over and poked and finally found my vein. Blood started oozing into the plastic bag. Whoopie! I was donating!
OH NO WAIT!
After a good 2 minutes I started getting this tingly sensation in my fingertips. I shrugged it off.
then my eye sight started to go in and out. BIG NO-NO
So I closed my eyes and heard, "Sweatheart are you OK?"
And I moaned "I'm feeling really dizzy."
They lowered the head rest so I was completely laying down and someone put a cold wash cloth on my neck and forehead all the while I felt like I was going to vomit.
Someone else said "Bend your legs" so I mechanically bent them.
The nurse said "Your half way there, if you absolutely have to stop you can tell me"
But I was determined to finish so I shook my head and told them I wanted to continue.
After a good, 10+ minutes later (My blood flow was going REALLY slow), I finally heard those miraculous words "Ok your done. I'm going to take the needle out now."
After they took the needle out I was still feeling REALLY queazy and dizzy. So the same guy (later I found out his name is Carl) that asked me to bend my legs told me to rock them back and forth to keep the blood flow going.
Ooooh god I was feeling like shiiiiiit. And It totally didn't help that I had THE WORST MENSTRUAL CRAMPS EVER. OMG.
After about 45 minutes of swaying my legs back and forth I finally told them I was feeling better so Carl and the nurse lifted my head rest back up and told me to dangle my legs off the chair before I go to the snack bar to get my food.
15 more minutes of that.
I FINALLY went to the snack bar and some other nurse told me I had to eat 2 of something and drink 2 of something.
My stomach was churning and I thought Ohmigod I can't eat any of this I'm going to throw up, but instead I just nodded.
I grabbed a tiny bag of Oreos, Cheez-itz, Orange Juice, and water. I took one sip of the Orange juice and I yelled "I need a plastic bag."
Hahaha
A nurse yelled "WE NEED A BIOHAZARD BAG OVER HERE!!!!"
So the same guy that took care of me on the seat (Carl), hurried over and brought a red plastic bag with the biohazard sign on it, and placed it right infront of me.
I sat there for a good 5 minutes before Carl pulled my seat 3 feet from the table and placed me on a cot.
I sat there much like I did on the donation chair and laid there for ANOTHER hour and a half, swaying my bent legs back and forth. Back and forth. Back and forth.
By the time I was feeling better, it was around 12:55 and lunch was almost over. Mack came in and my face lit up. Holyshit I was so happy to see him.
I told him everything and he apologized that he wasn't there to help me.
LOLOL
What a cutie. <3

I skipped fifth and sixth period because I was outside the donation center with Mack and Holly. I did not feel like going back to class yet because I was still a little light headed.

So school ended and Mack and I were invited to go to In-N-Out with some friends. We got lost because we took the wrong free way. it sucked.
We finally got there and it was ridiculously boring. I didn't eat anything because I had no monies and the other four were talking basically amongst each other. Mack and I were just ... sitting there basically. Ugh. Boring as fack.

So we left and it was just me and Mack. Finally. His friend Guy called and asked to hang out so I hesitantly dropped him off at his house.

I was sad. D:

So now I'm here at home. My donation arm hurts. I have no financial aid for college.
and
I'm bored as fuck.

Who has donated blood before? Did you get queazy or faint? Or did you suck it up and everything went fine? :'DD