Day 8; Oh the weight!

Uhm so welcome to day eight, I am doing okay other than the fact that I should have researched donating platelets better… Uhm so the process takes about 2 1/2 hours… I didn’t know that until the red cross people informed me during my medical screening. Uhm another thing, you cannot move your arms for the duration of the process once your inner elbow has been disinfected with the alcohol swab. Overall my arms are sore the nurses said that my veins are teeny tiny and my arms are sore and I feel as though I didn’t produce enough platelets. Obviously every bit helps but there was this guy beside me also donating platelets and his bags full of platelets looked like they were gonna burst. I contributed which is all that matters. I donate blood on Monday and then platelets again that Friday. I think if I were never to donate platelets again it would still be too soon but I pushed through. While I was there I watched Straw which was amazing! No spoilers here, but what you think is happening may not actually be what is happening. Then I had about 45 min left in which I picked up watching the resident where I had left off in like season six. Give me more movie recommendations that you think would be good for when I am donating platelets on Friday, I’M DESPERATE. I desperately urge you to donate platelets, plasma, blood, anything because if you have it there sure as hell is someone who needs it. I am super excited thinking about not only my birthday but moving into my dorm in the fall and meeting my roommate face-to-face. If you know where to shop for dorm essentials that are earth-toned, NOT MUTED, just earth-toned let me know and leave a comment of this post! Goodnight- the future Messy College Girl.