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February 5, 2006

Stumble It!I gave blood again yesterday

Filed under: Health — Eric Ptak @ 6:14 pm

Yesterday, I gave blood again. It’s nice, they are starting to recognize me as a “regular”. The only thing that bothered me is that because of the injury to my foot, I haven’t been able to go to the gym after work for a couple of weeks now. It really sucks, because in just that short amount of time, my blood pressure jumped 15 points, and that’s not good. I can’t wait to see what it has done to my weight. Am I back up to an unenviable weight again?

One thing that I am going to not do is run every day. I think that is one of the major reasons that I sustained that injury. I will ride the bike one day, do the elliptical machine the next, and run the next, rotating through that progression so that I don’t cause myself any serious injuries like that again.

I really hate injuries like that. They make me feel like I’m growing old, when in fact, I am not that old. It’s just that it is going to take some time for me to get back to the shape that I was in fifteen years ago. I have to blame myself for getting out of shape in the first place. I’m the one who went for eight years without a serious workout, and now, I am paying for it.

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  1. [...] I gave blood again today. At this rate, I’ll give 6 pints this year. That’s a cool goal to have, like a lady friend of mine told me. She said she couldn’t, and not because of medical reasons. It’s because she is afraid of needles. Isn’t it silly all the excuses people make up? There should never be any kind of blood shortage, but people for one reason or another choose not to. One guy I used to work with gave once, and when he didn’t sign up again for another donation, they started calling him, and he got pissed about it. He went off on them, and said that he would never donate again. I thought it was silly, but what can I say? I just go every 8 weeks or so, and just do it. And I know that I am helping people, so that’s cool. [...]

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