Colin got to throw out the first pitch for the Hawkeye vs Jayhawks. He grew up about 20 miles down the road in Cascade and his college coach is the current head coach for the Hawkeyes. I may have freaked out just a bit.
Editing to add: Alex Cohen was also there (I think he did announcing for the broadcast)
Asking that everyone keeps Derek's people in their thoughts and prayers if that's your thing.
Also man of the people giving free drinks at the bar in his hometown
Well I had my first big issue today. Felt great going into to donate and everything was going pretty good. I switched to my right arm from my left because that arm is starting to need a break. Told the tech with my right arm usually the machine has to be down a couple speeds from the highest or it doesn't work and he got it all set up and the donation started off great. During my second cycle it wasn't seeming to work when I was pumping but it's happened before and usually needs a minute to kick in. All of the sudden the machine stopped and made a loud beeping noise and I assumed that there was a bubble and it was all good. Until the guy beside looked down and said "oh shit". And then the kid across from me started to freak out a bit. I looked at my machine and one of the lines broke and spilled a decent amount of blood on the floor and the machine. Thankfully none got on me or the person beside me. That then cued a bit of calm panic from center staff as they got me a Gatorade, wrapped my arm and made me sit in the chair for 15 minutes to hang out. Long story short can't donate for 56 days because there's no way to know how much blood I lost. Still got paid and they were very apologetic about the situation. I was super chill (shout out Lexapro) and chugged two gatorades and went home. Only bad side affect was feeling a bit nauseous but I think that was from downing 48oz of Gatorade in about 15 minutes.
Abby made a brief appearance on Cooper DeJean's podcast today during their call in segment. Kinda cute how nervous he gets.
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