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I guzzled the appropriate amount of water on Sunday and Monday, as my vein gushed a tad yesterday lol. First time 'round last year, the machine kept beeping because my pressure was low, because I didn't eat or drink enough.
This time, I filled that bag up quicksmart! Had a Nippy's Iced Coffee and some potato chips after. But yeah, now my elbow-pit is rather sore, I keep catastrophising and think it's still bleeding and I don't want to look, as it was when I changed the dressing yesterday (3 hours afterwards).
But! No complaints! Follow the directions and drink heaps of water!
Edit: actually, the only complaint is the bruise on my left middle finger from the haemoglobin test. I forget how much the tips of the fingers are used until one is sore ๐
some lemmy medals ๐๏ธ๐๏ธ๐๏ธ it's a wonderful thing you are doing ๐
They're putting in the hard work collecting it all ๐๐ผ I just go in when they text me that they want my blood type haha although, the nurse there said that my vein is real big so I should consider plasma donations.
Can do it more often, and they need people with big fat veins to handle the blood being back in when they seperate the plasma. ๐คท๐ผโโ๏ธ I should rack up my donation numbers lol
Yay go you!!