I am going to donate platelets today. I am sure nervous. I went to do it a few weeks ago and I wasn't so nervous. I couldn't donate that day because of a medication I was on, but I have been off of it for two weeks and now I can go. But I saw all the machinery. Oh, that looks scary. A needle in each arm. I put those needles in people all the time, but now we are talking about me, my arms. And to see my blood going out of one arm and back into the other. And on top of all that, I used to be a Jehovah's Witness and they are really against this. I left them ten years ago, but I was one for 43 years and things learned as a child are hard to get over. I have donated blood but that was quick and easy. This takes two hours. OK, I can do this. In three hours. I get to pick out a video to watch. I can do this. I can, I will. I will help someone who would otherwise bleed to death. What ever they are going through is much worse than this. If I keep on talking I will convince myself........ I am going to do this. I am. Becky