{"id":455,"date":"2005-04-15T14:06:07","date_gmt":"2005-04-15T19:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/creator\/2005\/04\/15\/ninety-minutes-later-i-still-dont-feel-well\/"},"modified":"2005-04-15T14:06:07","modified_gmt":"2005-04-15T19:06:07","slug":"ninety-minutes-later-i-still-dont-feel-well","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/2005\/04\/15\/ninety-minutes-later-i-still-dont-feel-well\/","title":{"rendered":"Ninety minutes later, I still don&#8217;t feel well"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I gave blood for the first time at GSP, which was, hideously, almost seven years ago.  I haven&#8217;t gone a year without donating since then.  At my current job, I&#8217;ve given at all but one (I was sick) of our company-wide blood drives, which happen every two and a half months.  I&#8217;m fairly experienced at these things.  I always prep with lots of water, and I eat a decent lunch, sans french fries.<\/p>\n<p>But dammit, it keeps getting worse.  I used to get nervous and shaky, so I started bringing my CD player along, and that helped.  Then I started getting light-headed and hot at the snack canteen; last time I had to lie down with my feet on a box and drink nasty Powerade.  Today I took twice as long as usual, so they had to reseat the needle&#8211;a new and disturbing experience&#8211;and I didn&#8217;t even make it off the donation table before I almost passed out.  Giving blood sucks!<\/p>\n<p>Not gonna stop, though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I gave blood for the first time at GSP, which was, hideously, almost seven years ago. I haven&#8217;t gone a year without donating since then. At my current job, I&#8217;ve given at all but one (I was sick) of our company-wide blood drives, which happen every two and a half months. I&#8217;m fairly experienced at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69,89,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-exertion","category-gsp","category-stress"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}