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I have a very irrational fear of needles. I have to look away and really, really concentrate on something else in order not to freak out.

Related story. When I was 18, I was stranded in Portland (OR) with no money. I needed to bus it back home to Astoria on Monday, but like I said.. broke. So, on the advice a buddy, I decided to go give blood. It was all I could do to not freak the fuck out as it seems like they were draining the very life right out of me. Now, I have no idea how much they actually took, but in my mental state, it seemed like a gallon. So they take what they're going to take and tell me to sit tight. I start to relax thinking they are done, but I just don't feel right. Before we started, they'd asked if I'd eaten yet. I said I had; I hadn't- I was broke. I chalked the shitty feelings to lack of food. When the vampire was walking away, I asked when they were going to take the shit out of my arm that's still taped down. That's when I learned the difference between a blood bank and a plasma bank. She explained that they were going to actually but most was what they took out of me back into me.

NOPE NOPE NOPE. Fuck this. Fuck the $25 (this was 1996, prices may have gone up by now, I wouldn't know). Fuck the bus ticket, I'm out. I got up, made it about a step and a half and then... blackness.

When I came to, I was back in the bed thingy, surrounded by large dude that looked upset with me and they were putting my blood (minus the plasma!) into my arm. When they were done, they gave me a glass of OJ, my $25 and told me never to return. I don't know what the point of this story is, but seriously, fuck needles.

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