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I am so exhausted right now. I didn’t even do much today, and I feel like it should be 11pm, and my butt should be in bed.

I had lunch with the lunch ladies today, and then went and gave blood for a girl whose mom works in the lunchroom. I was fine during the whole process. I have my blood, the lady laughed and said I had amazing veins, and was all good. I got outside and was standing under a covering talking to some people, and all of a sudden it hit me. I feel really dizzy and knew that wasn’t a good thing.

I went and sat down in one of the chairs, and just grabbed my moms hand and said “I am going to pass out”. Next thing I know I have bags of ice on my necks, on my chest, and some lady is yelling at me to keep my eyes open and to talk to her. I am like hey lady, I am just worried about breathing. I know I kept telling her, just help me, I don’t like this feeling, just help me. I think she was laughing at me. I know I would have been.

So once they got me half way awake again, they made me go sit into the blood bus again with bags of ice on my legs, and on my neck, and I had to drink two bottles of water while my feet were above my head. Do you know how hard that is to do normally, let alone when your still feeling like crap and can barley hold the bottle?

Anyways, after about 10 minutes or so, I felt good again and they sat me up normally. I was on my second bottle of water when my mom comes back on the bus and tells me another lady (a lunch lady she is good friends with) has passed out too, except she was worse than me. So I was just sitting there breathing and trying to get better, because it sucks knowing that your sitting in a viable seat that could be used for giving blood to this sick little girl.

So as I am sitting there, I look over and see a very familar face. I asked the nurse her name, and come to find out, it’s my ex-boyfriends sister. How weird is that. Oh well, she was an incredible nurse, and very understanding. Well due to my passing out, and the other lady, they were making blood donors sit in the air conditioned bus and drink something and eat something before they would let them get off the bus.

Anyways, my question for you is … has this even happened to you? Could there be another reason besides the heat I passed out? The lady took my blood pressure again, and iron, and I was fine. The only other thing she said was I could be within the first 6 weeks of pregnancy, and that I just threw off my blood balance, and resulted in me passing out. Who knows why it happened, but it did, and I will still continue to give blood.