Tasty Platelets

mmmm mmmm... This morning i woke up at six so i could go give me some platelets. I am pretty sure in a previous blog i posted my reason for going, but quick over-view, to save lives because at the time i couldn't give to save another.

Deep wasn't it?

But so this morning i gave platelets at 7:15 a.m.  For those of you who don't know what those little things are, well they are the shtuff that dreams are made of, because without them flowing with your red blood cells, when you got cut or shanked, and i don't mean the pants pulled down but i use it in the way prison people use it... i feel it is more meaningful.  haha, oh Zoolander.  But for serious, these are the particles that flow within that red stuff that makes your blood clot.  So platelets keep you from bleeding more then you really need to, and today i gave to counts of platelets... yay.

While giving these potentially life saving things i watched No Country For Old Men, i mean i couldn't really here all that they were saying, some parts of it were good, but over all i think the ending was not so great, kinda just happened.  Maybe i will see it another time and like it more, anyone want to join me?  Oh and yes, you get this little bonus of watching T.V. or a movie while giving platelets because the process is quite long.  They stick a needle in your arm which i hate hate hate... then as this big machine sucks out your blood it strains, or separates out your platelets from your blood cells.  Pretty cool, it took an hour and a half of my time this morning, i think a little longer, but who knows.  Sarah the American Red Cross lady who was my... technician... this morning does. Any who so as it separates the platelets from the blood cells it flows all my blood back into my body, minus some platelets.  :)  Oh and the bag that the platelets goes into just looks like it is full of urine.  I know a little graphic, but i thought i would just share this whole experience with you... and so, here are even more pictures!

Wait wait wait, what does this mean, that is right, i have a camera, i took a few pictures of the whole after affect of my little arm at the house. I mean nothing big but i thought it was worth some pictures, plus i think one is very artsy.  And me having this camera and uploading pictures means one more thing... can you guess what it is, find out next one or two or three blogs. :)

(Yay artsy one!)