A good day
Had a good day yesterday,
Went to give blood- my first donation after they turned me down in December as I was on prescription iron tablets.Have taken some over the couter ones recently to make usre my heamoglobin was high enough. That was sweet as - 127, the minimum is 120. Although when they went through the risk questionaire we got to needlesticks and I went 'no needlesticks but you probably should know that a scalpel slipped when I was dissecting a pigs kidney...didn't get to my bloodstream but did break my skin'. They checked that out with the medical officer, it was sweet as (but wouldn't have been if it was a human). Had to figure out when it was - was first tri labs so a slight challenge.
The donation went a bit fast for the nurse's liking (possibly as I didn't know you're only meant to squeeze the sqeezy thing every five seconds (which then had me thinking of a BVM - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bag_valve_mask)) so she adjusted the chair to have the feet up almost at the level of my head....shan't be wearing a miniskirt next time!
Once the needle was out, the vein kept going! Thus the lovely hot pink pressure bandage...of course I hadn't factored in the fact that this may happen....Thursdays currently means labs with nice white uniforms that clearly show elbows......so the whole lab class (12-15 people) knew pretty quick. Oh well, if awareness increases donations.....
The lab involved drawing the organs on each others abdomens showing where they are under the skin.....fun times. One of the girls had a doctors appointment after and says her Dr laughed pretty hard. Unfortunately my camera has been busted for nearly a year so any photos have been taken with my phone...yes, I'm a geek.
Off to go ice skating today.....first time since summer 96-97...Singapore
Finally managed to put something under the cut!
Went to give blood- my first donation after they turned me down in December as I was on prescription iron tablets.Have taken some over the couter ones recently to make usre my heamoglobin was high enough. That was sweet as - 127, the minimum is 120. Although when they went through the risk questionaire we got to needlesticks and I went 'no needlesticks but you probably should know that a scalpel slipped when I was dissecting a pigs kidney...didn't get to my bloodstream but did break my skin'. They checked that out with the medical officer, it was sweet as (but wouldn't have been if it was a human). Had to figure out when it was - was first tri labs so a slight challenge.
The donation went a bit fast for the nurse's liking (possibly as I didn't know you're only meant to squeeze the sqeezy thing every five seconds (which then had me thinking of a BVM - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bag_valve_mask)) so she adjusted the chair to have the feet up almost at the level of my head....shan't be wearing a miniskirt next time!
Once the needle was out, the vein kept going! Thus the lovely hot pink pressure bandage...of course I hadn't factored in the fact that this may happen....Thursdays currently means labs with nice white uniforms that clearly show elbows......so the whole lab class (12-15 people) knew pretty quick. Oh well, if awareness increases donations.....
The lab involved drawing the organs on each others abdomens showing where they are under the skin.....fun times. One of the girls had a doctors appointment after and says her Dr laughed pretty hard. Unfortunately my camera has been busted for nearly a year so any photos have been taken with my phone...yes, I'm a geek.
Off to go ice skating today.....first time since summer 96-97...Singapore
Finally managed to put something under the cut!