Kates Blog

So today was the blood drive at school, which I decided to participate in this year. Well, I was all ready to go in the morning and pumped for getting my blood drawn from my body to be stored and eventually put into another persons body. My blood would be in them. So cool, right? Anyways, I was stoked. So, 8:45am came and I went to the area where my blood would be taken from me. I filled out a form while a sweet young nurse made me a PB&J…Yes, for breakfast. It was really good, if you were curious. I had traveled outside of the US in the past three years a couple times, so I had to fill out a form saying where I’ve been, when I was there, and little details about it. I was told I was fine and could probably give blood, but when they checked my form, they saw that I had been in Honduras in July. The one place I was in Honduras was Roatan, and whaddayaknow, it’s a risk zone. I was told I couldn’t give blood because I might have malaria. Who the hell has freakin’ malaria? I don’t! Anyways, I couldn’t give blood and I can’t give blood for another year. July 5th, 2009 to be precise. But hey, at least I got a free T-Shirt, 2 stickers, and a free PB&J, right?

Oh well, next year, maybe.