"Our greatest fear is fear itself". I kept repeating this to myself over and over again as I headed to give blood for the first time on Monday. I've always wanted to donate blood and even felt a responsibility to do so (You see, I have O- blood, aka the "universal donor" because anyone can accept it). But, my fear of seeing my blood come out of my arm through a needle had always stopped me short.
However, I finally drummed up enough courage to do it. It wasn't nearly as frightening as I thought it would be! I only felt a slight pinch in my elbow, I couldn't even see the bag of blood until it was full, and I didn't have any bad side effects afterwards (I was only super hungry the rest of the day).
Apparently, I was even really fast. The pint was full in 5 minutes, 50 seconds. I heard that some donors like to "race" each other after they've done it before. So. . . . . anyone feel like a race?
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