Feline blood donation

Bit on my fork. Hard. 

Now I have an achy shaky tooth. Zzz. Lesson learnt, eat slowly, chew carefully. No wrong taking your time to focus on your meal. No wrong.

Pitch donated blood for the very first time. I am so darn proud of her. She's forever my champion. Probably done lots of things a cat wouldnt do. Taking a plane, selflessly saving other furries' lives, living a very very loved life.

I am conflicted if I want her to donate again. Many reasons for that.

• My furry is away from me, for 8 hrs. Could have been just 6, but she had her munch before I sent her in. Still. Too long. Hahaa attachment issues. You would know if you've gone round a guilt trip sending her on a flight that she wouldnt see you for at least 10 days.
• The hospital asks you to sign a disclaimer form every damn time you selflessly send in your donor baby. And I quote, "I hereby release and hold harmless the hospital from losses of any kind...". Essentially telling me that if anything happens to Pitch, not their problem. Err... Like, wouldnt you do everything in your power to save her? Wouldnt you absorb all costs to keep her healthy? You want her blood to save someone else, so.. cant you keep her safe and well too? It's not a life exchange, right? I'm well aware the clauses companies use to keep themselves indemnified, and emotional attachments cannot be in them. But I dont quite think there is a level ground here. O wait, you know what's the benefit the donor gets? A free bag of dry kibbles. I raise my eyebrow.
• I asked the vet what (health) benefits does a cat get for donating blood. She actually got me wrong, she thought I was asking what's in it for me to send my cat for blood donation, and went on to say I get a free bag of cat food. Pfft. Anyway, if you are a human blood donor, you might know that if we donate blood, our bodies get like blood regeneration which is like good for us. Like new clean blood, yea. So I wanna know if that's the same for furries. This vet, she was honest, brutally honest, not that I'm complaining. She said no known health benefits to the donor cat, and if anything, it could lower their blood pressure and lead to life danger. To level the blood pressure during blood donation, the donor cat is on IV to pump in fluids that she is losing. Ooooookay, not quite a plus to be a donor cat. AT ALL.
• My furry gets clipped. I DISLIKE/LOATHE/HATE/ABHOR/DETEST my furries getting clipped. It's a peeve, I believe. Everyday I look at Ginger and his badly shaven body, and I feel so sorry and sad for him. Thank god it's not winter. Cats' fur grow at snail speed, it takes 9 months to fully grow out!!!
  Granted, I was told Pitch would be clipped if she is a donor cat. I was also told the area clipped will be a small little 5cm x 5cm on her neck, and her front leg for catheter to pump in fluids. Well, I can tolerate this peeve; it's saving another furry's life. I'm bigger than that. So I'm cool.
  When I collected Pitch 8hrs later, I saw that they had clipped a really large area on the other side of her neck (she already has a patch from her 1st donor checkup that is slowly growing some fur), her front leg, AND her hind leg. THE HOSPITAL CANNOT COUNT. O MY GAWD.
• Pitch was very restless when we collected her. She was a little groggy, uptight, wouldnt sleep with us, very needy, kept real close to me wherever I went. She only relaxed and got some shuteye 10hrs after we collected her.
• Pitch, like Ginger, yanked her catheter out during her stay at the hospital, resulting in a red bruise on her front leg. Now she's just licking at it non-stop. She looks like she had a fur-cut that went wrong. 

Patchy Pitch

Would love to hear your thoughts. If you were me, would you let Pitch go for another donation? Fen responded a resounding yes. Ugh.