OK well I had an interesting day today. I went and had lunch with my dad and on the way home I saw that the blood mobile was right near my house. (For anyone who doesn't know what the hell I'm talking about... In san diego we have the san diego blood bank. They send out bus like blood donating clinics to a bunch of places like shopping centers all around san diego. More convinent for people who don't want to actually go to the clinic.)
So anyways I went and filled out the paperwork we have to fill out everytime, asking about what drugs you've taken, who you've had sex with, have you left the country... blah blah blah.
I do all the finger pricking tests they do and temperature taking (which was a little high for some reason this time 99.5 and then went down to 99) FINALLY after about a half hour of being there, I get to sit down and give blood. So I'm sitting there letting them drain my blood. And then the lady tells me I'm done and pulls the needle out... and after you give blood you have to sit in the "canteen" for around 15 minutes and drink juice and eat something.
Well this time I was sitting there eating my rice krispies treat and I start to get dizzy and very nauseous. The guy that keeps an eye on you while you're sitting there had to call over a nurse and she put ice packs on my neck and got me a barf bag. Just to tell you this wasn't my first time giving blood, and I had never felt like this before. So after sitting there for a minute I had to puke in the bag in front of all these people on this bus. It wasn't too bad. Then the nurse has me lay down and drink water and I felt better after about ten minutes. Thank goodness I had done this so close to my house. I still felt a little out of it when I left and was glad I didn't have to drive far. I just want to say that all the nurses that were there were SOOOO nice to me and made me feel so comfortable and took complete care of me.
So I had to post my interesting day... Feeling a little better after I came home and went to sleep.
I have a question for all the other donors out there... Have you ever had a reaction like that? I was told it may have been because it was so hot outside, and I hadn't had enough fluids to put up with losing so much blood.
