[personal profile] ndrosen
I 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.

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