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[lithera]

I'm giving blood in like an hour.



I already feel kind of tingly.

I don't really have a fear of giving blood, I just typically have a bit of a difficult time giving blood. They have to stick the needle into me a few times. This definately causes me to have endorphins running. Thus I get giddy and thus I get this freaky panicky reaction before I go and do it. I'll be fine once the needle is in me, but until then I'll be a little ... hyper almost.

I can almost understand the appeal of shooting up. Almost.

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[seanb.livejournal.com]

I can definitely understand that.

As I child, I had a fear of needles. Even the little blood draw from our annual checkup was fearful enough to get me into hysterics. At one point it took 3 nurses to hold me down while a fourth did the blood draw, and I still managed to spray blood on the ceiling.

When I was a teenager, I confronted this the best way I could; I started donating blood. By the time I had my 2-gallon pin, my fear had settled into the kind of endorphin rush you describe.

Then I started getting tattoos.

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[lithera.livejournal.com]

*nods* I give blood because its one of those good thigns that I can do. I typically don't make enough money to give any away to charity, so this is one of those ways I can help out.

That and I want one of those pins.

I want another tattoo, as well.

[skidspoppe.livejournal.com]

"I want another tattoo, as well."

So this is the starter set? TRaining wheels for a new tatt?

(I want another one, too)

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[lithera.livejournal.com]

Nah. I just don't have a design I want for the tattoo yet. My last tattoo was relatively painless.

[seanb.livejournal.com]

Well, you could always get the next one someplace bonier.

[sharkcowsheep.livejournal.com]

Yeah, like the inside of your arm or your ankle or anywhere directly over your spine. Get it in one of those places. You'll like it.

[seanb.livejournal.com]

Hmmm. Maybe I'll get a spinal tatto next. Now just to choose a design...

[sharkcowsheep.livejournal.com]

Funny, here I was just thinking I needed a new one myself. Something small and subtle, insofar as a tattoo can be subtle. Max doesn't want me turning into the Painted Lady. :)

[seanb.livejournal.com]

I should probably give blood a couple times before the next tat. I haven't for a couple years: I always either had a fresh tat or a recent piercing or was ill or hated all of humanity. Now that I'm finally at a point where none of those is very true, I may as well donate again.

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[lithera.livejournal.com]

WE'll see. It depends on the design.

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[lithera.livejournal.com]

Which reminds me... Need to chat with you about tattoo designs.