Yeah, Nubbs is awesome.
On the donating blood front, the irksome fluke of Saturday's blood pressure reading turned into a very worrying trend when yesterday my attempt ended with a reading of 198 over 102, which is really worrying since I've always had normal blood pressure. :<
So on the one hand this is bad, because you can't donate if your blood pressure is too high, but on the other hand I might have accidentally helped myself discover something I wouldn't have known otherwise since I don't get to doctors much. I'm going to the doctor Monday to get this checked out, because that's just dangerously high. Though it might explain some symptoms I've been having lately I was just attributing to stress/getting things in my eye - Fuzzy vision, memory problems(Who knew that was a symptom of high blood pressure?), nosebleeds for the first time in years, frequent headaches I figured were sinus-related since I have allergies, etc. Not good.
So I guess double thanks to Nubbs for inadvertently turning me on to the fact that I may have developed a serious health issue and it may not just be 'meh must've scratched something when I got dirt in my eye it'll clear up', or 'oh, it's allergy season, just a nosebleed'.
So unfortunately until the blood pressure behaves I can't donate, because they defer you for that. :< Fortunately high blood pressure is treatable and I don't think any of the drugs for it are on the medication deferral list, so as soon as it comes down I should be good to go feed myself to the vampires.