Ewww... BLOOD!!!

Ok, so the title is a little bit deceiving. I am actually not afraid of blood. But, all of those claims were finally put to a test that fateful day.. (today) Earlier this week i signed up to donate blood. i knew i wouldnt have to run at the track meet today, which was a relief, so i figured no problem. i am not really nervous about these kinds of things as far as pain goes, and i dont mind my own blood ne way, i actually find it kinda cool. so i stay calm throughout the day and am totally ready to give blood at my designated hour of 1:35 in the afternoon. i left lunch and checked into my 7th hour, then elise and i headed to the ROTC room for some quality blood donating. when i get there i become somewhat apprehensive when i see that there is a questionairre to fill out. it asks about medication and and heart & lung problems. i am taking medicine for my back and have had asthma since kindergarten. so i was preparing myself to be rejected, something i have mixed reactions towards. i was reassured, however, that what i was doing was completely acceptable. now for the more humorous part of my story. after the simple run through done by the initial nurse, and the blood sugar test which i had a hard time believing that my finget would bleed that much, i was moved to a larger, more comfortable chair for the real procedure. i say procedure like i was going under the knife and that they were going to put me out or something. neither of which happened, except that they almost didnt need ne medicine to put me out.

As the nurse prepared me, she put the blood pressure band around my "massive" bicep and gave me a rubber ball, instructing me to squeeze hard 3 times and not to look as she inserted the needle. i did so, and as felt the prick, i hear her say "oh, oops!" that was prolly the most disconcerting comment she could have made. "oh, my fault, i forgot to put you to sleep before we cut open your heart"; or, "oh, gee, i sure missed the tendon and caught the bone on that one!" so at this point i knew it would not be good. i looked down, and much to my relief i saw that my vein had only squirted blood all over my shirt. it was pretty cool. it looked kinda tye-dye. not that i am a big tie-dye person, but let's look at the glass being half full for a moment. i was kinda amused actually, and the rest of the day, which was really only about 10 minutes in the hall after school i decided to put myself out there, and field shocked questions about what could possibly have happened to my shirt. i had a pretty good day, and i do say so myself.

Young Life was a lot of fun on Monday. i couldnt have told you before how much i had really missed it, but just seeing and spending time with some of the people i saw was priceless. you sometimes get that out of place feeling, but when you are wearing a safety green t-shirt, you pretty much ask for it. so i was in the boat by myself on that one. it was awesome tho. Tuesday we had our first track meet, which i really wasnt ready for. i did pretty well considering. i got a silver and a bronze and a 5th. i wasnt upset. the one i got 3rd in is my main event, and the one i plan to be working the most on the rest of the season, so now i can actually have a goal for practice. i didnt "get" to run today because i did the blood thing. I have another meet next friday, but i also have a soccer tournament tomorrow which i need to get sleep for, and hopefully i can get clear of all this drowsiness that i feel. who falls asleep at weddings? i didn... yeah i did. it was bad. i was totally out of it. I got to meet Dana officially tonight which was cool, and now i have a very full rest of the weekend. I have soccer saturday and sunday, Stugo basketball @6 at Topeka High tomorrow night which everyone still needs to come to. and maybe even a little soccer action on sunday afternoon. we will see if i get to that homework thing.

I saw the incredibles tonight while waiting for the phone to ring. lol, i wasnt really waiting for it. it would have been nice, but i am not naive, or super sensitive, and expectations arent stuff i like to get into. i really hope that i can see as many people as possible this weekend. we also have next friday off!! we shall see how that goes. soccer tourney. wish me luck. talk to everyone as soon as they call. have a good weekend.