Quote Originally Posted by Yorkshire born View Post
I recently gave blood for the first time. Its been one of those things I always wanted to do but never got round to it, so I decided to go ahead since things like this help me with my anexiety. I was feeling fine about the whole thing until I got to the donation centre and started to feel spaced out and started to worry about blacking out or some other complication occurring, typical anexiety catastrophic thinking. Anyway, in the end it was absolutely fine! It was quick and easy and booked I'm in to give blood again in a couple of months time.
I seem to recall you area teacher. So, you could say you are an old hand at giving blood!

Well done though, that's a great thing to do for others. There is certainly no worry even if you had some symptoms there, those people are used to dealing with some of that.