{"id":785,"date":"2011-03-08T12:30:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-08T12:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/08\/donating-blood-and-a-loss\/"},"modified":"2011-03-08T12:30:00","modified_gmt":"2011-03-08T12:30:00","slug":"donating-blood-and-a-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/08\/donating-blood-and-a-loss\/","title":{"rendered":"donating blood and a loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I went to donate blood yesterday after work.  I didn&#8217;t have an appointment, but it didn&#8217;t really slow anything down.  Went through the usual process right up until they did the needle stick.  The nurse was alerted to a problem and hurried over to the snack table.  A high-school aged guy had his head down on the table and was about to pass out.   A couple of the nurses got  damp cloths and carefully tipped him back over in his chair so his feet were elevated.  It looked a little weird, but seemed to do the job.  They kept him like that for a few minutes, then moved him onto one of the beds.  He had turned a strange shade of green and stayed that way all through my donation &#8211; which went smoothly and uneventfully.    (though the actual needle stick was a little rough &#8211; I&#8217;m guessing she was distracted)  I&#8217;m guessing he didn&#8217;t eat before his donation &#8211; I learned my lesson on that a while ago.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>When I was done, I went to stop at the snack table, but there was no room.   So, mildly cranky at being denied my juice and cookie, I headed on home &#8211; no worse for wear.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>That evening I got a call from my former room-mate&#8217;s mom.  She told me that my FRM&#8217;s former girlfriend&#8217;s mom had passed away.      Seems like a tenuous connection to me, but as much of a jerk as my FRM could be &#8211; he did manage to surround himself with good people.  So, I get along well with his mom, his former girlfriend, and her mom.   The service is to today and I can&#8217;t get out of work, but I got an address and put a card in the mail.   Doesn&#8217;t seem like enough, but maybe it will help.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Busy day ahead of me &#8211; lots of work to do.  Better get to it.<\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img width='1' height='1' src='https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/6913097901389264887-3884678463258245700?l=thunderofwade.blogspot.com' alt='' \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I went to donate blood yesterday after work. I didn&#8217;t have an appointment, but it didn&#8217;t really slow anything down. Went through the usual process right up until they did the needle stick. The nurse was alerted to a problem and hurried over to the snack table. A high-school aged guy had his head down [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_bluesky_dont_syndicate":"","_bluesky_syndication_accounts":"","_bluesky_syndication_text":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}