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Classical @ 07:18 pm CST
well, i've had an umm... interesting day.
so blood drive comes along to the school. as i've already previously mentioned, i don't have issues with needles or anything. i figured i would do a good thing and donate because i'm all healthy and stuff like that. i get there this morning, feeling great and everything.
getting me hooked up was obnoxious, because my veins are kinda small and were at weird angles in my arm. in any matter, from the position i was put in, i couldn't see anything. nothing was really visible to freak me out or anything, so i did just fine through most of the thing. i was quite bored, actually. XD i couldn't do anything except roll this stick around in my hand.
but at the very end... i started feeling insanely ill. like the pukey kind of ill. i waited until i had finished and then all hell broke loose.
in short, i was physically sick for an hour and a half straight after that. they said that it was somewhat common (like one out of every ten) who feel lightheaded, get sick, etc. after giving blood for maybe ten or fifteen minutes. but after twenty minutes, they started to worry, and after an hour, they had to start calling people. especially because i was getting worse and practically going into shock. .x. but my pulse and blood pressure remained mostly normal, so i wasn't "offically" going into shock... but it was pretty damn close. they called it a "vagus reaction."
apparently, my sympathetic nervous system went into overdrive and the big nerve (vagus) that goes through the heart and throughout most of the body was really affected. it's connected to the heart, the stomach (while was why i was so ill), and the veins in the legs, so all of those were dialated and taking all the blood that my head really needed at that point.
and yeah. an ambulance came! x:
i got to ride on one of those strappy beds and into the ambulance and wear one of those nasal straw things that gave me some extra oxygen. because my body temperature was low and i was shaking so much, they had to poke the back of my hands four times in attempt to get an IV in me, but that didn't work. D: but they did end up poking me with something to keep me from further pukage, so now my upper arm aches like hell. that one hurt.
got to lie around in the hospital for a bit and listen to the three other patients in the same area around me. there was a swedish family who was supposed to get on a 'plane back home today, but everyone in their family was sick. then wthere was a guy who worked in construction or something who dislocated his knee. and then there was this crazy, neurotic girl (who was probably no older than nineteen) who was freaking out about chest pains, but refused to take half of the tests the doctors wanted to do.
and yeah. went i finally warmed up, the nurse lady was able to get an IV in me and then i froze again, because that thing was going fast and the water was way cooooollld. but it was better than being dehydrated like i was, y'know.
so now i'm home and feeling rather okay. my throat burns just from how much bile was pushed up through there, my arm still hurts, my stomach muscles are sore, and i get really lightheaded whenever i stand up.
and i'm stuck eating crackers and drinking water while everyone else in my family gets really good Chinese for dinner. D: my mother brought me something home, though, so i hope i'll get to maybe eat it tonight... if not, for lunch tomorrow.
so, in all, i totally did not see this coming. XD and i now have a reason to be kinda nervous with getting my blood drawn now... though the doctor says this isn't like, chronic or anything, and i could probably give blood again and be just fine.
but umm... i don't think i'm going to be doing that again any time soon. XD;;
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