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[Kadee]

Augustine please don't give up on donating.  I have a child with a chronic disease and if there ever comes a time when she is in need of blood she'll get it because of kind hearted people like you.

 I have a problem with getting blood drawn too.  My veins are very small and it takes a good nurse or tech who really knows what their doing. I always end up bruised though.  If you go again ask them if they would use a butterfly needle.  It is shaped like a butterfly and is very tiny, once that is injected into the vein they then attach the drawing needle to it.  So the big needle never touches you.

[Augustine]

Kadee, the butterfly needle sounds like an excellent idea.  I was severely asthmatic as a kid and had to have blood work done all time (hence my hatred of needles!), and I remember the butterfly needles being the only ones that didn't hurt.  I hope they'd be willing to use one.  Sometimes things are kind of backward down where I live.  But it's still worth asking.  At the very least I can warn the nurses to be extremely careful next time.