Wednesday, March 19, 2008

Needles

After a long shift at work I had the desire for a little cash. Normally selling my plasma would take me around forty-five minutes. Unfortunately for me everyone else in the world decided they wanted cash too. I waited an hour just to go to the back. Once I was situated I just sat there for a few minutes wondering if I had been forgotten. When the guy finally started to set me up I had nearly finished the whole goonies movie. Iodine was applied and the needle was stuck into my skin. I was astonished when there was no flow of dark crimson blood up the tube. The young man doing the pricking was also. He poked around for a few minutes then decided to go on break. After like ten minutes another guy came over and says a very clear tube and decided that it would probably help if there was some blood moving. So he turned the cuff on so tight that my arm actually turned almost completely blue. So after twenty minutes with a needle sticking in my arm blood actually began to flow. After two hours and twenty minutes I walked out of the Plasma Collection Center thirty dollars richer. Was it worth it? Probably not.

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