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azurelunatic) wrote2003-07-12 12:49 pm
azurelunatic) wrote2003-07-12 12:49 pm
Who's the professional, again?
Donated plasma. The experience took longer than usual, as it was time for my annual physical. Pee in cup, poke and prod, the usual.
Movies du jour: Die Another Day, and that one with the zombies that is the same as the game that good ol' Fuzzy used to play at Wood Center all the time. You know, where the chick Veronica's been kidnapped? [google: veronica, zombies, game] Aha. Resident Evil. But was I watching those excellent movies? Kinda. But mostly I was reading Code Complete. Who, me, geek?
Saw a friend of![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
digitalambience's, and he asked me if I was still kicking him in the nuts every now and then. Or something. It was one of the guys with the dark hair and beards. Not Phil, and definitely not Larry. Big, with a laptop. He and this other guy had a crossover cable strung between their systems, and were gaming away, or sharing files, or something.
I gave my plasma, and sat there ten minutes with the gauze on my arm. Same guy as last time who pulled the needle out. And he came to offer me a bandaid. This time, I refused, and I refused two minutes later when I sat up, and there was still a drop of clear fluid oozing out very slowly, which was what had been going on last week when I bled all over the place. So he taped me up, putting only one layer of masking tape around my arm. Not the sturdy stuff either, mind you.
Okay, so it was one and a half.
I gather myself together, do my thing, and stroll on out of there. Halfway across the dusty parking lot between the plasma donation center building and the corner, the sole comes out of my shoe. So I bend over to shove it back in, and I bend my elbow. Snap. Woops, was that the masking tape?
I have visions of myself bleeding all over the bus. I sigh, and march back into the plasma place, and get myself re-taped.
Next time, when I don't think the tape will hold? It probably won't.
Movies du jour: Die Another Day, and that one with the zombies that is the same as the game that good ol' Fuzzy used to play at Wood Center all the time. You know, where the chick Veronica's been kidnapped? [google: veronica, zombies, game] Aha. Resident Evil. But was I watching those excellent movies? Kinda. But mostly I was reading Code Complete. Who, me, geek?
Saw a friend of
digitalambience's, and he asked me if I was still kicking him in the nuts every now and then. Or something. It was one of the guys with the dark hair and beards. Not Phil, and definitely not Larry. Big, with a laptop. He and this other guy had a crossover cable strung between their systems, and were gaming away, or sharing files, or something. I gave my plasma, and sat there ten minutes with the gauze on my arm. Same guy as last time who pulled the needle out. And he came to offer me a bandaid. This time, I refused, and I refused two minutes later when I sat up, and there was still a drop of clear fluid oozing out very slowly, which was what had been going on last week when I bled all over the place. So he taped me up, putting only one layer of masking tape around my arm. Not the sturdy stuff either, mind you.
Okay, so it was one and a half.
I gather myself together, do my thing, and stroll on out of there. Halfway across the dusty parking lot between the plasma donation center building and the corner, the sole comes out of my shoe. So I bend over to shove it back in, and I bend my elbow. Snap. Woops, was that the masking tape?
I have visions of myself bleeding all over the bus. I sigh, and march back into the plasma place, and get myself re-taped.
Next time, when I don't think the tape will hold? It probably won't.
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1. Why plasma as opposed to blood?
2. Is plasma more or less painful than blood?
3. Is there a profit in plasma? (Hey, I'm poor! *G*)
That last question isn't as serious as the first two.
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2. The amount of pain for the needlestick/discomfort of needle in arm is about the same. Plasma takes about 45 minutes vs. blood, which takes a shorter time.
3. Underpants?
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The person I was watching it with thought it was bad in the go-and-play-N64-games-on-the-computer-rather-than-watch-this kind of way.
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