Power Red Donation Gone A Muck

I banged out another American Red Cross, Power Red blood donation on October 8!  Just down the street at the Franklin Elks, nice and close.

Unfortunately, this donate was stopped early, after collecting only one of the two pints typically collected when doing Power Reds.  Seems the plasma return back into my arm was leaking (outside vein), which by the way was very painful.  The decision was made to stop the draw in order to save the one pint of blood already collected.  Continuing would have put that in jeopardy.  Good news is I'm eligible to donate again in December versus February. Bad news is I was black and blue, more so then usual, in the area of the needle stick..