I was trying to do something good and I got this!
While donating plasma the girl shoving the thick needle in me decided to fish around inside for my vein while the needle was in me.
Painful, but I endured. Then after my blood was being pumped out, I felt a tingling and numbing sensation. I looked down and there was a giant knot on my arm. Swelling. From my elbow down it all went numb! An alarm on the machine goes off! "Blood Clot Warning!" A crowd gathers round and my arm continues to swell! They can't put my blood back into me. There's air in the hose! They scramble with ice-packs. People around me seem tense. They talk of me going to an Emergency Room, Hospital, Ambulance, Gurney, Help... I tell them I feel fine. I'm ashamed to tell them I don't have Health Insurance. I talk my way out of it. My arm hurts. I'm walked to my car. I tell them I'm not dizzy, though I in fact am. I drive to Red Lobster and using my Xmas Gift Card from my brother, I enjoy a flounder and broccoli. Heard a man seated next to me tell his wife, in public, in the restaurant, where I and everyone could hear, "...just get a small salad, because you are too fat." She wasn't at all, and I could see she was hurt by his words, but said nothing to him. Why are some people so mean? The food is good, but I begin to feel bad, weak, woozy and wish my mother was alive to make me feel better like she always could. Once, when I was lil' and very sick with a cold, my mom woke up in the middle of the night to rub Vick's Vapor Rub on my chest, because she was so sweet, but it was late and she was sleepy so by mistake she rubbed me down with cold cream. Today marks the second day of my 4th month on my low-carb lifestyle and while I've lost a lot of weight, there is more to lose, and one thing I've discovered is my heart is heavy and full of love. Came home to relax and my friend and Technical Director of my radio show/podcast, Steve sends me info about "The Coffee Party" a growing group that feels "The Tea Party" does not speak for them. It looks like she's standing in the cold of climate change. I wonder what Doug Stanhope would say about that? Watched the video of this very cute girl in the snow, I like what she's saying, however I don't drink coffee, but if there was a Water Party... But then the water would have frozen in her hands. I got cold watching this, but fired up on the inside. Maybe I should start, "The Water Party?" I wish you were here to be with me and make me feel better about my hematoma and tell me it was gonna be alright and we could watch Bruce Lee movies together.
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