give blood

how desperate am i to find something to post??? i gave blood yesterday and woke up to this nifty bruise today. there was a problem with the mechanism that switches from the big ole bag of blood and lets them fill tubes for testing. my nurse thought i had clotted or something and told me to keep squeezing. it wasn't me. really it wasn't. i kindly let them fill the tubes from my other arm, which doesn't like donating as much as the other one, but that bruise was not even worth a picture. so anyway, it doesn't hurt and everyone should donate. :)