First Time Blood Donor

Blog Day 1:
Today I attempted to Donate Blood to the United Blood Services. I failed miserably.
Here's how it went.
Iron Testing - Passed
Blood Pressure - Passed
Interview Passed - Passed
Needle In - Passed

I failed at the only thing I had no control over. After the needle was in (and I must say it HURT) and I was sitting there with my eyes closed humming the tunes to a song and praying trying not to think of the hurt, the lady says to another lady;
"I think there's something wrong here."
My eyes fly open and she says, "There's no blood coming out." It took that woman 2 minutes with a needle in my arm to tell me no blood was coming out. (The needle didn't hit the vein when she put it in) I thought I was half done and in reality it never started. The other woman that came over told the lady working with me that I was done. She obviously saw the look of anxiety and panic on my face.
Then the other lady (the one with me the whole time) started writing down stuff and ignoring me. While the needle was still in my arm! Just hanging there no longer taped or anything! Lord was I p'od. Not only was this lady stupid and stuck a needle where my vein wasn't at, she left it there! I would've ripped that thing out myself if she hadn't taken it out soon after, which she did.

I cried. I really wanted to give blood. I'd never done it before and I was really excited about it. My fiance does it all the time. I don't even KNOW my blood type.
They still gave me the "Blood Donor" t-shirt and a sticker that said "I Tried!"

That's my day. I was sooo excited all day to do this and it was wasted. Go figure.