Went to give blood today. Ran up three flights of stairs, read the required blood literature and so on. Answered all of the donation questions. Some are now done orally, some were done on a computer.
The woman who walked me through the process and drew my blood was thoroughly disinterested at the end of her day. The organizer said they had a slow morning, but things had really picked up later in the day.
I learned that, among the things they are doing when you give blood is to time the donation. I was told this is for health reasons. If it takes you more than 20 minutes, that is problematic. If you are done in under four minutes, that is a different kind of problem. I was finished in four minutes and 17 seconds.
The problem being they give you that little sponge ball and tell you to squeeze often. So I just absentmindedly squeezed constantly.
Accepted the juice and cookies. Decline the t-shirt, though it was a pretty good one.
I did get some stickers:
The young lady that signed us in said they were old. They look it. A lot of people are jealous of them, but all they have to do is go give a bit of blood. It only takes 4:17.
