Can I Get a Pint of Blood to Go?

I did my good deed for the day and went to the Naval Hospital to donate blood. Apparently, they're low on AB and that's me... so off I went to get siphoned.

As always, a big thanks to The Illustrated Librarian and ArmyGuy for showing me the blood donor ropes. The trick is, DON'T LOOK! It would have been nice to have TIL with me...putting on a distracting puppet show and making snide comments, but it wasn't in the cards.

Always suspicious, I asked the nurse to tell me just who was getting my fabulous AB+. I was reassured that my blood will only be given to armed forces active duty members stationed here or in Iraq or that the blood would go to the VA hospital for veterans. I'm happy about this because while I didn't mind giving to the Red Cross while living in CA, I always felt vaguely squeemish knowing that my blood would be re-sold to hospital customers and that it was always possible that someone having an elective procedure could get my blood.

Honey, my blood is too damn good to go to some bimbo getting a boob job.

If you can, please give blood!