Earlier today I donated blood. My first time ever. I never could before because I had tattoos and a piercing that preventing me for qualifying whenever the thought of donating crossed my mind.
Couldn’t in high school because I got my first tattoo in on my 18th birthday, obviously. Then in college I couldn’t because of a belly button piercing (10/03) then a tattoo and then it’s follow up touch up. Then I got my foot tattoo at the end of ’10. You have to wait a year before you can donated after each of these things so I was finally able to do so at the beginning of this year. And with the Red Cross having a blood drive just 4 floors up from my lovely cubical today I figure I would do it.
It was so simple. Didn’t hurt at all. I am actually fearing that ripping the pieces of tape and band-aid off my arm will hurt the most. Damn that smarts!
I got a Red Sox shirt some cheez-its and a cute teeny tiny can of cranberry juice. win-win!
I really could go on and on about how great it is to donate blood and how easy it is to do but I’ll let you do your own research since I have better things to do than copy paste the red cross info on my site…you know, like listen to Goyte’s “Somebody that I used to know” for the 1,000th time.
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The red sox shirt made it totally worth it
Do you know how many people you have helped with this donation……way to go.
I may or may not have been listening to that song while reading this post. Thanks for donating blood!
This is like instant Karma boost. Even though thinking about it this way is probably totally counteractive to its original purpose. Either way, kudos
Hooray for donating blood! That’s awesome. And thank goodness for Cheez-Its!