The Dreamwidth Journal of zdashamber

So, I gave blood yesterday... It's something I try to do a couple times a year, but I have to do it when I know I can do nothing for a couple days and nothing strenuous for a fortnight after, because I don't have a whole lot of blood or pressure. The time I tried giving blood and then going back to work, I ended up sitting and then lying on the floor of the lab, with the hot feeling of "sit down or fall down, 3... 2... 1..." So I've been lax last year.

Anyway, finally had a 3-day weekend with nothing really planned... Also, denyse is hopefully going to be giving birth in the next week, and that reminded me. When I first got my blood type card I was kindof annoyed... "B negative?! I thought I was O!" Mom had always said I was O, but turns out that spot on the birth certificate referred to her, not me. After doing a bit of research turns out that unlike in Europeans, B is pretty common in Asians, so I kinda figured that I was in a good location for having B and my blood would go to people with Asian backgrounds giving birth. I asked yesterday how far blood from Oakland travelled, and apparently it stays in Oakland, but anyway.

( Bit of kvetching about being B- )

( Bit of talking about the process of giving blood and how it's not so bad )