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Originally Posted by SCadaddle
I turn my head and look the other way when it comes to needles and blood work at the hospital. Don't want to see anyone else bleeding. Doesn't bother me much when I injure myself and see my own blood that way.
Now puke, don't much care for that, and wasn't long after receiving my pilot's license I had the opportunity to realize what would happen if I were pilot in command and a passenger got sick. Would it be a chain reaction? Would I manage to fly the airplane?
I just looked out the side window while it was all going on thankfully out the passenger's side window.  |
Way back in the stone ages when I was 18, I donated blood at the local red cross, it was all normal until the nurse pulled the needle out. I yelped as that hurt! She called me a big baby, and I said look at that needle. It had a big hunk of me hanging off of it, and it had a barb on the tip from defective manufacture. I was bleeding like a stick pig, and they wrapped my arm tight and I had to hold my arm up over my head for a long time. The good news was I was young and healed up quickly. After that I always want to see the needle and watch them shove it in my arm. I have "easy veins" and they never had issues. I do have scar tissue in the crook of both elbows from many donations.