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weirdlookindog · 1 year
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Give Blood by Paul Garner
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eisenkrahe · 2 months
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gatesong · 1 day
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I gave blood today and in return the Red Cross gave me this T-shirt with Godzilla fighting King Kong.
And they've got red bandages on their arms JUST LIKE MINE.
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Chapters: 1/2 Fandom: The Legend of Zelda & Related Fandoms, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Link/Zelda (Legend of Zelda)
After a day spent wrangling his students on a field trip to Lake Hylia and having to skip lunch, Link is sure that he'll be fine to go donate blood that evening. He is not fine. But at least he gets to spend some extra time with the lovely nurse, and eat a truly impressive amount of oreos, so, it could be worse?
For @zelinktines23 Day 21: Meet-weird!
This was a blast to write! Thank you @silentprincess17 for consulting, and @ladyhoneydee and @alucanid for being the most superb of beta readers
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The door to the Hyrule Blood Services clinic chimed as it swung open. The nurse at the front desk gave him a cheerful smile, and he returned it with a friendly wave.
“Link Akkala?” she asked, glancing down at her computer screen.
“5 o’clock, that would be me!” he said, pulling out his donor card and swiping his card under the scanner.
“Oh congratulations, I see it’s your tenth time donating!”
“Do I get a prize?” he winked, and she laughed.  
“I think your tenth visit entitles you to a blood services keychain.” She said, pulling one out from a box underneath her desk. He pocketed the “I save lives” keychain and took the clipboard she held out.
“Any issues with the questionnaire? As a seasoned donor, I assume you filled it out at home yesterday.”
“Yep, no issues at all. Nothing more exciting to report than my COVID booster a couple of months ago.” He handed back the form with his signature messily scrawled at the bottom.
“Great. I’ll just hand you off to Zelda here, she’ll get you set up.”
“Awesome, thanks.” 
She turned her attention back to the computer screen, and he followed the other nurse over to the screening room, shedding his light blue jacket as he sat down. The nurse – Zelda, what a pretty name – walked him through the more detailed version of the online questionnaire he’d finished the day before.
“All right, you’ve been here a few times, you know the drill,” she said, leafing through the printed questionnaire and asking the usual follow-up questions. It was all pretty routine, and she was very professional, but being questioned about his sexual habits always irked him a bit. He clamped down any sarcastic comments he might have made about lingering homophobic policies when he noticed the apologetic look in her eyes. Save that for another time, he figured. A quick blood pressure check and a finger prick to test his hemoglobin levels, and she led him back out into the main room. 
She patted one of the chairs. “All right Mr Akkala, lie back and relax.” she said, gesturing for him to make himself comfortable.
“Gladly. And please, call me Link. It feels weird being called Mr Akkala when I’m not at work.” 
That got her to smile. “Fine by me, Link. Which arm?” she asked, pulling out a thick, colourful elastic strap. He held out his left arm, and she wrapped it around his well-muscled bicep. “Oooh, you’ve got nice veins!” she remarked.
He laughed. “So I’ve heard, but it’s not a compliment I get often.”
“Well, it’s true.” She grinned as she pulled out the bags, labeling them with the appropriate barcodes. “Love a man who makes my life easier. I hate having to dig around, almost as much as my patients do.”
“I can imagine it’s not fun.”
“Nope. Do you want a blanket? Stress ball?”
“Yeah, that’d be great!”
“Okay, let me just grab those…” She walked off to the bin of cozy blankets at the other end of the room. She had a pleasant voice, Link noticed. It was lightly accented, but he couldn’t quite place where it was from. She sounded dignified, even when talking about veins.
“There you go.” She tucked the blanket around his legs, popped the heated stress ball into his palm, and tilted the chair back. “Ready to start?”
“Yep!”
She quickly sanitized his arm and her hands, putting on a pair of nitrile gloves before pulling the needle out of its pouch, clipping it to the bag’s connecting tube. He turned his head away as she threaded it neatly into a prominent vein by his left elbow.
She worked quickly and efficiently, but Link couldn’t stop himself from noticing how soft and gentle her hands were. The tube filled up with blood and the machine holding the bag started to tilt back and forth to keep the flow moving.
“You’re all set! I’ll be back in a few minutes, just gotta fill out some paperwork.” 
“I’ll be good, I promise.” He winked, and she laughed. He liked her laugh, too. It was sweet, melodic.
Stop thinking about how cute the nurse is, Link, he chided himself as she walked back over to her desk. He lay back, pulling out his phone and opening up some silly game that his students had told him about. It didn’t hold his attention for long, only slightly distracting him from Zelda working away at her desk at the far end of the room. She looked so serious, poring over her work with a slight furrow in her brow and occasionally biting her lower lip. She glanced up at him, and he quickly turned his attention up to the ceiling, absent-mindedly counting the styrofoam tiles and fluorescent bulbs, as the soft clicks and whooshing of the collection machine hummed away in the background. 
Out of the corner of his eye, he saw her turning back to her paperwork. He lifted his head to glance at her again, but the angle meant that he just happened to catch a glimpse of the tube in his arm. He felt his stomach lurch, his hands going limp, and the ball dropping onto the floor, and ohhh no what’s happening –
Blackness.
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It's taking so much restraint to not ask the vampires nurses at the blood center if they've heard the news of our good friend Jonathan Harker.
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Song of the Day
18 Mar., ‘23
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lemonastims · 1 year
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this reads as both a threat and a command what the fuck
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thatflourgirl · 2 years
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I Helped to save the 🌎 today donate blood to save a life!
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ghostjelliess · 21 hours
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"you don't really have... usable parts"
—my doctor, explaining why 18yo me shouldn't feel guilty about not registering as an organ donor after I tried to give blood and they said thxnothx.
Which led to this Midwest Gothic line I wrote for a class in college:
I have the blood and bone of my fellow man, but when I try to give back, they say it is changed, no longer usable, even for parts.
Which eventually led to the enduring nickname of "un-scrap-able," which you would think to shorten to "scrappy" or something doggish and cute, but actually just became Crap. I'm crap.
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boffincoderproducts · 28 days
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When you donate platelets, they journey to hospitals where they become heroes for patients in need, including those fighting cancer, recovering from surgery, or facing other medical challenges. Your selfless act truly makes a difference in saving lives
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sbobcat · 3 months
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I did my first platelet donation today. I give regular blood donations throughout the year, but this was a first. Its a longer time to donate, but you can do it more frequently. If you haven't given blood before, see if you are able to. If you've given blood and haven't tried this, check it out and consider donating platelets. You can do it as well as your regular donations! 
#RedCross #GiveBlood #Donate #Platelets 
https://www.redcrossblood.org/donate-blood/how-to-donate/types-of-blood-donations/platelet-donation.html
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kyreniacommentator · 4 months
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BRS News: GIVE BLOOD - SAVE A LIFE!
We are sharing for readers the approval of the BRS, news recently provided by the British Residents’ Society to their members on 9th December 2023. Continue reading Untitled
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nixs-thoughts · 5 months
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Donated blood for the 4th time today! Tolerated it better than previous times, I think I'm starting to get more used to it. If you're eligible to donate, please consider it! ❤️💉🩸
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lazylittledragon · 4 months
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and they never talked about it again
(high res version for patr0ns!!)
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thebeerthrillers · 6 months
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Master of Pumpkins, Cupcakes, Cookies, and Bacon Cheeseburgers
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