Couple months ago I went for my regular checkup I have to get after last October's little episode, and the doc told me I had to give a blood sample. No problem, I've never been squeamish about blood, so I go into the room with the nurse, and she sets up. Get her little pricker apparatus and a vial that was about four inches long and a half inch wide, and I ask her "Damn, you must need a lot of blood for this test." and she laughs and says yeah, they need a good bit to send off to the lab. Tells me not to look when she's about to stab me but I tell her its ok, I'm not squeamish, and she looks at me odd as I watch her put the thing in my arm and start drawing blood, no big.
Then she pulls out six more vials.
"God damn, how much blood do you need?" She tells me they need seven vials for all the tests they have to do, it's standard. So I sit there and watch her pull five and a half vials out of my left arm before I apparently run out, and after squeezing my arm for a couple minutes she says she needs to try the other arm, and unplugs me.
While she's getting the next run set up, I start to feel a little light-headed and woozy, and suddenly I've gone deaf. I'm trying to tell her this but I can't hear myself speak, so for all I know I sound like Marlee Matlin. She looks at me and starts to freak out a little and calls the doctor and another nurse, who both run in and start talking to her about the fuck do I know because I'm deaf now but they looked excited. Doc tries to ask me stuff but I can't hear him and can barely read his lips and now I feel like I'm about to pass out so I say that and the male nurse runs off. I'm thinking shit, if I pass out here in this small office, they'll have to find the biggest bodybuilding fucking paramedics in the state to cart my 6'4" fat ass through this place to an ambulance.
Finally, I can start to hear again a little, and the male nurse and an older nurse come back with a couple bottles of water and tell me to drink them, and I gulp the first down in one swallow, then start drinking the second. The doc's asking me how I feel and I'm telling him fine, just dizzy, and if they need to take more blood they might have to give me a few minutes here.
"FUCK no. You're done giving blood for the day now, Hoss. Call someone to pick you up."
I lied and said ok, since my roommate was at work and my parents were out of town, and after resting another ten minutes or so, went out to my truck and after making sure I was clear-headed drove to McDonald's and got myself a Double Quarter Pounder meal that I wolfed down after I got home.