I had to give 2 pints of blood prior to my surgery. I gave on the 3rd. I gave myself a break and gave the other pint today. I am a pretty regular blood donor so I give blood as often as I can. We aren't rich people so helping out by giving blood is a small thing that I can do to help! So I eagerly agreed to donate blood for my surgery. I would rather get blood from myself instead of someone else.
A co-worker of mine is also having surgery next month and is self donating. We went on the same day the first time that we donated. So we had the same nurse draw our blood. We both agreed that this woman wasn't quite right. She donated earlier this week and had a different nurse. I went yesterday and had the same dimwit!
I had blood drawn earlier this week for my work up at the hospital so my right arm was bruised. She thought that we should use the left arm instead. I thought "Ok, I have had problems in the past maybe this will be different!" She put the needle into my arm. The blood wasn't freely flowing. She proceeded to move the needle around in my arm. She pushed it in further and pulled it out. The thought of it now makes me gag. I almost passed out from her moving it around so much. On top of it they may not be able to use that pint of blood because it took so long to collect!!!! So I was pretty frustrated.
