Bloody good time!

Friday, September 06, 2013

Today I did something for the first time...kinda. I actually tried to donate blood before, but due to certain circumstances wasn't able to the first time round. So I tried again today, and I got to the almost final stage. There I was, sitting on the super high seat (kind of like beach chairs), resting my legs out and looking under my shoes to see how they look like to others and just looking around to see how people react to the needle poking and the blood oozing out into the bags, when it was my turn. Okay, actually it took quite a long wait on the chair before a woman came to give me a sponge to squeeze and tighten my arms to find the vein. It took her quite fast, so I thought like everything was going well. Until she left, and never came back until 10-15 mins later. Not really sure what was supposed to happen too because I wasn't told any instructions during the break, so I just sat there and kept looking around until *tada* my turn came. She poked a small needle to insert some medication, should be pain killer, followed by the huge one, the "blood sucker". Okay here I put the double colon because it was supposed to have the sucking effect of blood during the donation to fill the bags. However, it didn't really work well for me, and after a long while (my bf started after me and had ended already), she declared that I was done for the months and gave me an ice pack. Yep, I got some special treatment =/ Anyways, I was given the blue smiley face bandage which made me conclude the experience as not a bad one =)
And yeah, on top of all the tibits and stickers I koped, I got an additional orh cheh as a souvenir plus some blue-black cream that I had to apply...
It was an interesting experience and I will encourage people to donate at least once to have a feel of how blood donation drives work: the donors who give the extra time to save someone else's life, the free food/lunch you can take after donation (win-win both ways), the cool sticker one can be proud to wear without being judge negatively, and of course the cute sponge souvenirs (which the woman never give me -.-) that they give to donors as an appreciation. So what are you waiting for? Go to a drive and say "I want to donate blood!" today ;)
That's all folks!
"You're somebody's type" - ABO

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