This Won't Hurt a Bit

[Marl Fublewonker]

Let me begin by saying that this is more of a story than a rant. A true story however.

   So, the Red Cross came by my area today, and, feeling that others needed it more than I, I decided to donate a pint of blood. After sitting through about an hour's worth of questions pertaining to my travelling situation and sexual life (did you know you can't donate blood if you're gay?) I was finally admitted into the room to have my blood sucked from my arm. I was prepped and ready to have the needle inserted, and the technician (not nurse... technician) said, "This won't hurt a bit." It wasn't that bad... yet. After about 20 seconds I was a little woozy. Then after another minute I felt supremely dizzy. I didn't think anything of it. I thought it was just the effect of losing blood. Then I blacked out.

   A seizure! I had a fucking seizure! I started coming to to the sound of people screaming my name and some old guy in a Santa Clause hat holding my legs up. My first thought was, "Fuck! Santa Clause!" There was a searing pain in my arm where the needle was. I looked down to see why it hurt so much only to see the technician holding a bloody rag to the inside of my gushing elbow. Apparently during the seizure the needle was accidentaly ripped from my arm. This was an experience I will not soon forget.

   So, in short, fuck you Red Cross. Don't expect another donation of any sort from me again.

[The Doctor]

   

[Cain]

Yeah, that sounds about right.  My father always had a horror story about one time when he tried to donate that it took over 20 jabs with the needle to find his vein.  I think that was a technician too, though fortunately in his case a nurse saw something wasnt right and did it properly, in one easy go.

Hows your arm doing?

[Irreverend Hugh, KSC]

You can't trust those people to pop a vein correctly. The Red Cross are notorious fuck ups with that procedure.

[The Doctor]

And the needles are huge.  

[Eldora, Oracle of Alchemy]

I decided a long time ago the question and answer thing was way too annoying and pretty much pointless.  A lot of people who are carrying the HIV virus don't know it.  Then there was the case of someone who died after having been exposed to West Nile virus, donated her organs and at least one of the recipients died.  Can you imagine surviving transplant surgery and dying from some stupid virus, that would suck.

[Marl Fublewonker]

Hows your arm doing?

It's okay. There was no really bad damage, just kind of painful.

[BADGE OF HONOR]

How did getting a needle in the arm cause you to have a seizure?  Isn't that kind of your fault, not theirs?

[Eldora, Oracle of Alchemy]

How did getting a needle in the arm cause you to have a seizure?  Isn't that kind of your fault, not theirs?

Vagal something response.  Can make a person faint for no apparent reason, not sure about the seizure part.  One of those things you don't know you have it until something like this happens.

[East Coast Hustle]

what my brain saw:

Vaginal something response.  Can make a person faint for no apparent reason, not sure about the seizure part.  One of those things you don't know you have it until something like this happens.

[The Doctor]

 Me too.

[Bella]

Yeah, so did I.
So I got a beer to clear my head and still thought that's what she meant to write.

Sorry about the whole needle thing, Marl.

[Marl Fublewonker]

Thanks for the concern folks. I've been shaken up about it all day.

By the way Rabbid Badger, they said that a seizure is a rare reaction to the suction they use to remove the blood. It sounds plausible.

[The seer]

Heh I know a guy who was turned down from the army because whenever he gets any kind of wound the muscles around it contract so tight they stop the bloodflow. I mean COME ON! he's a walking fucking tourniquet!  

But yeah. I'm no big fan of needles. But I'd rather not donate blood. I'd feel very christian answering 'no' to 98% of those questions.  

[Eldora, Oracle of Alchemy]

Thanks for the concern folks. I've been shaken up about it all day.

By the way Rabbid Badger, they said that a seizure is a rare reaction to the suction they use to remove the blood. It sounds plausible.

You guya are all so funny    :P    Glad I made everyone's day and that class with the 10 pound book did actually come in handy.

Anway, the vagas nerve is like the 10th cranial nerve.  It has control of a lot of stuff, like blood pressure, heart rate, stomache acid and I forget what all else.  It is a bunch of stuff that doesn't seem related that much and it is weird that it is all the same nerve.  They(tm) have experiemtned with cutting the nerve for people with sever ulcers, this was before the whole bacteria theory of ulcers and Prilosec.  Not much point in trying to figure out if it is that unless you start passing out a lot.