My Good Deed

So I figured, I am healthy individual who isn't getting laid, so at least I am not at risk for STD's. How can I use this to my advantage? I figured I would be a great candidate for giving blood. So I sign up to give blood at a blood drive at a local hospital for this morning. I go in at 8:30 for my blood-letting appointment and go through the obligatory game of 20 questions. I won and they sent me back to the fun chairs where they let me lay down. So they do there business and get my blood flowing. i fill up the pouch in good time and they apparently ran into a bit of a snag with the hardware when they were trying to stop me. The ended up messing with my needle for like 5 minutes and finally get everything squared away. The lady asks if my elbow always looks like that and say, Yah I think so. I have bony elbows so a little bump isn't a big surprise for me.

They end up having to take a little blood from the other arm just to make sure that they have what they need in order to use my blood for a transfusion. Then when I am holding the gauze over the new puncture wound, I look down at the first one and see that there is a big bump on the inside of my elbow. So i get the attention of the nurse and say, "that bump isn't normal". So they put ice on it and hope for the best. At the time my elbow was pretty stiff and it didn't bend well at all cuz of the swelling. they say that i will probably get a nasty bruise and I should ice it on and off all day.

so I get to work and my arm is pretty much gimpy. it is a bit of a challenge to drive stick cuz the shifting arm doens't have much of a range of motion at all. i am able to do it, but not without much complaining. My arm keeps getting stiffer and stiffer, so I end up going to the store and grabbing a bag of frozen pees and use that for icing my arm all after noon. It is around 11 pm. now and I can start to feel my arm stiffening up again, but hopeully a good night sleep will do it some good. i hope this doesn't effect my driving tomorrow cuz I am making a trip down to visit the folks with my sister who is flying into town tomorrow!! rock!!

ohh yeah, i ran a slow 2. 5 miles this morning. nothing of note. didn't feel too bad, didn't feel too good.