So I’m not sure if I’m going to be donating blood any time soon. It’s about two weeks past the time that I could have donated again, but… last time there was this EXTREME pain when the woman put in the needle and extreme pain when she took it out. She claimed it was just the antiseptic. I’ve donated blood before and I have never felt that kind of pain before. It seriously felt like my arm was burning. I was actually crying because it hurt so bad. And now I swear I’ve had some massive damage done to a nerve in my arm. At first I didn’t know what it was and figured it would heal on it’s own.
It’s always been that if the entry point is hit in anyway it sends shooting pain down my arm from about the crook of my elbow to my wrist. Today it’s been the worst it’s ever been. Normally there has to be pressure on it for it to hurt, but today just bending my arm has been hurting it. And it’s progressed to just placing a finger tip on it (not pressing, just setting) does it and when not even moving it there’s pain and a slight numbness in my hand. I don’t even know who I go to see about it. A neurologist maybe?
At first I figured I’d just use my other arm since my left is screwed up. To me helping people was more important and what are the odds it will happen again to my right? But seeing how this has progressed I could not imagine having both of my arms like this, nor can I see donating with my left arm as it is… So as of now this goal is no where close to happening and we’ll see what happens in the future…
