Giving Blood

This was while i was in the army stilll, it was to send to the soldiers overseas, so everyone was forced to do it1

ok, so i went in, noting special until i actually got in the chair. The nurse was getting my arm ready. She sticks the needle in me and right before she lets the tubbing go, which is wat started it off she gives me the instructions. "just watch the blood travel through the tubbing if u want, but do keep an eye on the bag of blood down there. If you don't feel right or it fills up just alert me my name is nurse *******" And its my first time so i'm inexperienced with the speed of it all. When she lets go of the tubbing it rushes through the tube. And the bag is 1.5 pints, its at 1 pint in less than 4 seconds as she turns around and starts preparing the needle for someone else. I let out a weak "Nurse" and go entirely numb and pass out. She just looks back at me and uses the whistle and I'm surrounded by nurses. I don't know wat they did other than change the bag three times while i'm out because my blood was coming out too fast. But I wake up to around 8 people in my face and I respond to that with "am I in trouble again" said weakly. And 7 of the people go away and she tells me, "you blacked out, your blood rushed out of you. Its now coming out of you at a normal rate, although u are on your tth bag. And you've lost 4.5 pints instead of 1.5 like everyone else. I'm gonna go ahead and take that out now. You only have 6 pints in your body you know. 2 seats over to my right a whistle blows and I can see a little through the guy to my right and all the chaos. He's having a siesure, complications to losing blood too quickly. After that ordel was done I over heard the conversation with the guy to my right.2

"Nurse, do not stick me, after seeing all that I refuse"3

"why?"4

"well he just passed out and he just had a siesure!, chances r too high for me for something bad to happen, you cannot legally make me, I refuse!"5

"can you atleast help out with these two?"6

"yeah, i see no problem with that"7

"ok, ur gonna be getting snacks and drinks for these 2 until they're"8

"I'll help out both of them until one of them needs to go back to the barracks"9

"that's fair, thank you for your help"10

And he does indeed get us drinks and sugar cookies.(MMMMMM cookie) And after about an hour he asks me "you ready to go yet, can you stand on your own?"11

"Get me one more little drink and i'll be willing to go, but I doubt I can stand on my own, I'll be willing to try if you're willing to catch me"12

He gets me the cup of juice and indeed I do try. I can stand but the second I lift my foot off the ground the leg on the ground just collapses instantly. He goes "ok, I'm gonnna have to hand you over to your Sergent, what company are you in?" And I tell him. He takes me there I'm basically drapped over him. He goes in there and goes through the whole Sergent adressing situation.13

"Sergent on duty PFC ****** and Quesadilla requesting permission to speak"14

Sergent ****** comes out of the room looks at him who snapped into parade rest, I'm slumped over him. He goes "Damn it Quesadilla, I'm a Sergent get into parade rest." I see the fearful smirk(he didn't want me hurt, but he wanted to see me fall so he could laugh). I get into parade rest, and I end up falling straight back. He goes "Holy Shit! Are you ok?" I don't respond I'm just dazed and confused saying to myself "how did I get on the floor?" he turns to the other guy and goes "what happened to him?" And he gives the whole story of what happened. He goes "oh crap, I need to keep him in here for the night, I'll get his room mate later to take him up. Help me get him onto the couch in the Sergent's room."15

"Yes Sergent"16

And I pass out, wake up 3 days later(Saturday Morning) in my room on the floor.