Finally, after years of living in fear of donating blood, I conquered my fears!! Yesterday, as planned, I met shar after my lectures to donate blood. We had to queue for quite long, and luckily, shar had her macbook with her so we watched Spongebob Squarepants. If she didnt bring that, I believe my eyes would wander around and see the equipment which I am rather uncomfortable with. And so, after 1-1.5 hours of waiting, it was finally our turn. Shar went first, then I went to the 'bed' next to hers. Apparently, the nurse couldnt find the vein in my left arm so she had to take from my right. Then when the nurse was about to start to poke me, I overheard that shar couldnt donate cause they couldnt find the vein in both her arms.
AND, she was so kind as to accompany me throughout the process even though she was late for her meeting. SUCH A GOOD FRIEND! ROAR! Thanks a lot shar! If you weren't there, I would no doubt have fainted in the middle of the process cause I had the going-to-faint type of feeling where my ears were muffled and my vision start to blur. Maybe I just couldnt get used to the idea of something foreign in me. Wuahahhahaha, quite suggestive way of putting it..
Anyway, it wasnt that painful or horrible as I thought it would be. The first injection made my arm feel numb so when she poke the THICK LONG needle in, I didnt feel any pain. BUT, I still could feel the needle going in and I had to look at the nurse poking it in. It went quite far down before it reached the vein. Warh, when it went into the vein, I immediately had the going-to-faint feeling. Lucky shar was there to talk to me, or else, I think I would have concussed..
Ok this is getting long. Soooo, after don't know how long, the bag was finally full with MY blood. I had to squeeze this green apple stuffed toy thing to get the blood out, it was rather difficult. My arm was shaking with the effort. So after the whole event, I went to drink heavenly milo and biscuit and the clerk gave me a "no chicken award" cert for being a first donor. Anyway blah blah, lets shift to training.
So 3 hours after the donation, I had training and I think looked pale cause everyone was quite concerned. Ahhh.. such nice friends. Everything went smooth, played quite well, then ran 2.4 after that. I took 20 mins to run 6 rounds, OMG!!
Anyway, after school ended at 5.30pm, I called my mum to tell her that I donated my blood, and she said "HUH WHY YOU GO AND DONATE BLOOD?! YOU A LOT OF BLOOD MEH?! SO MUCH DONATE TO ME LA!!" Haha, funny la she..
Anyway, 2 photos of my fat arm to keep you entertained..
Better stop here, I need a nap on my comfy bed.
Thanks to shar for waiting for me and mon who hoped that I faint.. =)
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