There Will Be Blood
Blood Donation, USA | Healthy | January 5, 2018
(I’m donating blood, and the donor phlebotomist is an absolute klutz. We’re in a donor bus (like a camper that they park at places to have mobile donor drives) and she keeps on knocking into other phlebotomists, dropping things. She has just finished freaking out that she started another donor at just the wrong time, and she’ll have to start his and stop mine at the same time. She comes over to take out my needle, bumbles for a bit, and then pulls it out, leaving a trail of blood down my arm. I’m trained in phlebotomy, so I know that she just has angled the needle down and it’s dripping, and I’m not freaked out by it. But this is her response.)
Phlebotomist: “Oh, whoopsie!” *yells* “CLEAN UP ON AISLE FOUR!”
(She then wiped it up, and continued to bumble around like nothing happened, while the rest of the bus stared at us.)
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