afriendlywitch

I give blood. I've always had a phobia of needles/nurses/fainting/blood/everything related to it, but after going through a big health issue this past year where I had blood drawn several times per month, I figured I'd try conquering my fear by giving blood voluntarily.

 

I fainted 3 times and they had to hold me afterward for 2 hours... I was stuck in bed all evening after X_X The clinic told me I probably shouldn't do it again since I had such a bad reaction.

 

But my blood was good enough to use!..... and they found I have O- blood, the only blood that can be given to anyone even if their blood type is unknown.

 

So now the blood bank calls me several times per week begging me to come in, even when I am sick and have finals for college >_>'

 

Giving blood is great -- I had an ex whose mom was more or less saved due to donated blood, and my fiance's dad was also. But if you have a rare blood type, be wary of giving out your phone number, lol.

 

 

As for the marrow, I've heard it is super-painful, but that's about it. I don't even know if my city has a location to donate it -- I'm sure they do, but they don't advertise it. Plasma and platelets are the big thing around here. But if you ever do that be extremely careful. My dad's partner has permanent health problems because the machine that separates the platelets from the blood and pumps solution back into the body glitched and he overdosed. He nearly died, and now he can never take a blood thinner even for his heart problems :/

Well I kind of ended up going waaaay over budget anyway, emptied my bank account for the purple paint brush I'd been wanting xD

 

I think (s)he ended up pretty neat :D Thanks for the tips guys!

 

http://www.neopets.com/petlookup.phtml?pet=Kaaell

I'm a technical writing student and wanted pets themed after that.

 

I envy those with pets named Gerund and Participle XD

Well, kind of, at least -- I finally got a draik egg from the forgotten shore!! I've been wanting a draik since I started playing neopets as a kid, haha. But that being said, I don't have a crazy amount of neopoints (all the neopoints I've earned are from lucky random events where I get morphing potions or paint brushes that I don't want) so I can't buy the fanciest of items.

 

So going from what I've got or other costumes that are under 100k, what would you do with my draik (Kaaell)? I'm planning on changing his gender since the draik nest doesn't let you pick, and I do have the lab ray so I keep refreshing to try to get the challenger to do so. So any customizations will probably be female themed, though if you know a good one for a male I'd also appreciate it.

 

I think that maybe even taking what he's got and painting him a different color could work, but I am having trouble deciding, haha.