Originally posted by: jaybert
i got a good blood story....we had a blood van come to where I work a few months ago so I agreed to go and donate blood. As I was going out the lady who worked there stopped me and asked if I would like to donate plateletes. At first I said no, but then she suckered me into it with the "its usually child cancer patients who need it...". So I relented. She directed me to where to go (it was in a different location...setup inside the building). I go and they check my veins and say they cant do it because my veins arent big enough.
So I go back to the regular blood van to donate blood and the people in there are like "oh yeah, would you be willing to donate platelettes? I told them the other people said I couldnt but they insisted I could with the machines in the van. It took them a while to find a vein they could use and finally got it going. Seemed they were having alot of trouble sucking the blood out as she would have to move the needle when it stopped. If you all dont know how donating platlettes works, they take a little blood out, then the machine takes the platelettes, then the blood is returned. This process is repeatedly done until they get all the platelettes. They get the blood out and are in the process of putting it back in. I guess the needle shifted so the needle was not in my vein anymore. Of course the blood has to go somewhere so it is now pooling under my skin. I tell the nurse that this sure doesnt seem right and she rushes over and tries to get the needle out before anymore blood goes underneath (it was about the size of a quarter now, maybe a few mm in height. she tries to put some gauze over it and pull out the needle, but that was unsuccessful. As she pulls it out, blood sprays EVERYWHERE. All over her clothes, over my clothes, over the bus walls. OOPS
Anyways, thats my story. Regardless, this wont make me stop donating blood....though next time they ask to platelettes I'm giving them a hell no 🙂
