I Gave Blood
Jul. 10th, 2025 10:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ndrosenI gave blood this morning. Before the donation, my blood pressure was 103 over 63, my heart rate was 75, my temperature was 97.6 degrees, and my hemoglobin was 13.4. When I was done, the phlebotomist asked me if I had a special preference for the color of the adhesive fabric to be wrapped around my arm, and I said “Octarine.”
She said she didn’t have anything exotic, so I could have blue, red, or something else, and I settled for blue. I explained that octarine was the eighth color in the late Sir Terry Pratchett’s Discworld books, beginning with The Color of Magic, so I managed to get in a little book-pushing.
She said she didn’t have anything exotic, so I could have blue, red, or something else, and I settled for blue. I explained that octarine was the eighth color in the late Sir Terry Pratchett’s Discworld books, beginning with The Color of Magic, so I managed to get in a little book-pushing.
