Dr. Victoria GrinbergMar 11

Donating! 🩸 If you can, please do, too!

#BloodDonation #sanquin

Show threadDr. Victoria GrinbergMar 11

Heh, it's the same dance every time.

"Have you donated from this arm before?"
"Yes, always the left arm."
"This is a very narrow vein. I will call a more experienced colleague [this time a super young lady in a headscarf 💚] to do it."
(I'm happy they do check! It's just always kinda funny ... I can tell them by now that there are two veins and that it is easier to feel them than to see.)

And then they are surprised that I'm done in 5 min max. Narrow veins but good blood flow.

Show threadDr. Victoria GrinbergMar 11
And the reason I post about donating is rather simple: I long procrastinated on starting to. And then folks I followed on twitter kept posting about them going donating so that at a point I made the jump. So trying to give back into the circle of encouragement...
Show threadOldDutchCapMar 11
@vicgrinberg I would love to donate--was giving pretty regularly. But my blood iron has been too low lately and it's not rebounded enough just yet. But I think giving blood is one of the easiest ways to do something good in the world.
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@onorio hope the blood irons gets up again - not just for donating, low blood iron is really not letting one feel well 😵‍💫

And yes on the super easy way to help! And it's worth trying. I always thought I'd be the person to faint etc., but my body surprisingly almost does not care, the only difference I feel is the lower performance when running after, but not that different from going to the mountains!

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Show threadOldDutchCapMar 11
@vicgrinberg Yeah it honestly annoys me more than anything else; I want to be able to help out but until/unless my blood iron improves I'm stuck watching on the sidelines.