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3月21日 Ode to my FamilyDear Family:
I wanted to write this thank you to all of you who have been so supportive of me. Thank you for wondering how I am handling all of this deployment business; I do not think I could get through this without my family. I am so glad they are always there for me to listen to me when I need to talk about what is going on with everything. I just wanted to send out a short but to the point thank you. I love you all. Family is the best thing and it is definately something to hold on to for your whole life. Love you guys. Keep asking me how I'm doing, I really appreciate it.
Love, Annie 3月1日 Try to Give Blood...JEESH!Last Friday I decided I would try to donate blood. I figure, I have no fear of blood or needles. What the heck, besides I have done it before. Although, my first time I tried giving blood, they had troubles finding my vein which resulted in the technician digging around for it. Eventually finding it...at least I bled...So this time around I thought oh yeah, everything is going to go great. I'm going to be happy that I've donated blood because someone could use it. Boy was I wrong. Everything was going fine until I heard the little machine beeping and then the technician who put the needle in came over and looked disappointed. She said that my bleeding had slowed down to only 1 ml at a time; generally they like it to be up to at least 15ml at a time. So I started squeezing that little "stress" ball to try to make myself bleed more. In the process, she called over a fellow technician to try to reposition the needle...she was unsuccessful....I was at 422 ml when they cut me off. I need 450ml to make a full pint. Unfortunately, they can't use my blood since it wasn't a full pint. The technician told me that I was going to have one heck of a bruise from all of this and lucky for you (my faithful reader) you get to see a picture of my bruise (5 days later). Let's just say, I've had to stick to long sleeve shirts for these last few days since I looked like a heroin addict at first and now I've moved into the batterd woman look. Take a look at the photo. I hope you all have enjoyed my "donating" blood experience; and yes I will try again. I will keep trying until I give a perfect donation (that means no vein or bleeding troubles). Wish me luck. Love to you all ~Annie (9 days until I go to Mississippi to see the love of my life)
My computer is refusing to cooperate with adding a photo; so I'm going to put the picture of my bruised arm under the PHOTO category. CHECK IT OUT! |
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