Fuck Hoxworth

August 16th 2007.. a rather stressful and fun day. It started out at Coney Island with my mom, two cousins and 5 other kids whom one of the three of us was watching. I took the older kids around to the bigger rides which was fun. It was so fucking hot yesterday though so that sucked. Anyway after Coney Island I had to come home and give a flute lesson after which I had an appointment to donate blood.

I get to Hoxworth, fill out the questionare and go to have my stats done before getting in the chair. There is a question on the paper that asks do you have any heart or lung problems.. so I checked yes. Only because at birth and like 2 years ago I had an ekg done and it showed an abnormality. After further research into it.. it turned up to be nothing to worry about period. Just an electrical thing which means my heart transmitts messages to the valves, telling them when to pump differently than most people. I couldn't remember the name for it so I tried to explain it to the nurse. She took it to mean an irregular heart beat or something.. which it is nothing of the sort. Then the head dude came to talk to me about it and said I had to wait for their doctor in cincinnati to contact my heart doctor (which I no longer see.... as it was not a problem), or I could go get a note from my doctor, bring it back and donate that night.

So I decided to do the latter. When I came back in with the signed note allowing me to donate blood, the lady was a real bitch. She was like "you can't donate today, we told you that you have to wait for our head doctor to ok it." I responded with "Well what i'm trying to tell you is that that foreign dude and my nurse earlier said if I get a note from my doctor, bring it back and I can donate tonight." Then the dumb bitch got all in my face and said, "well i'm telling you our policies changed about three weeks ago.. our doctor has to approve it!!"

I wound up storming out the door yelling ,"well don't fucking call me with your harassing messages that i'm eligable to donate blood then! "

The whole situation just pissed me off. How the hell is their doctor going to be able to approve me to donate blood? Does she know me? Am I going to get an appointment for tests and shit with her? I highly doubt it. In all actuality, she'll be calling to talk to my doctor and ask if it's ok.. which was the whole fucking point of me going over to get the god damn note!! So I really just wasted my time and gas getting the fucking note that will in the long run do the same fucking thing their almighty doctor will do. What's more is this is like the 10th time i have donated.. never been a problem before has it? If they're going to educate a few nurses of the new policy.. educate fucking all of them!

They're a fucking donation place.. people come in there out of the good of their hearts to donate the blood of life.. to save other people's lives, getting nothing out of it in return but a bandaid. The last way someone who works at such organizations should treat the donor is how I was treated...
I guess they shouldn't give out those stickers anymore that say "be nice to me, I saved lives today.. i'm a BLOOD DONOR!"
Change them to say something like "I saved lives today, i'm a nice person TREAT ME LIKE SHIT!"

FUCK HOXWORTH!