First Blood

At last, Im a blood donor...Finally, :) Hehehe..Went to a Blood Donation Drive nearby (Chai Chee) after lunch, last Friday, wif 5 other colleagues. Out of the 3 who donated, 2 were first timers (ahem :P). We chose to sit next to one another, so the that we could laugh our fears out :P Nah..it was fun actually. Now I know how the procedure was like. This nice filipino nurse rubbed some ointment onto my right arm, just below the biceps (I flex a little *winks). Then she injected a straw-sized needle (exaggerated) into my vein and out comes my blood. Cool! No pain at all. All I have to do, was to pump out my own blood out by squeezing this spongeball every 5 secs. Soon, this 500ml bag beside me, was inflated wif my O+ blood. Strangely afterwards, I had this similar feeling of having completed a 2.4km run. Only this time, I wasn't sweating :D. My head felt light, my vision blurred and I felt giddy. So I stopped pumping, looked very stoned, and then 2 nurses came over to me. One, with a hot milo, the other, tilted my seating postion slightly inclined head-down postion. I was treated like a prince lah basically..Bleargh, first timers. Farhan, who was beside me, could still smsed a txt msg using his left hand while pumping his blood out thru the other. Gunawan on the opposite bed, cldn't stop fidgeting his arm. It caused the bend radius of the hose to be excessively large, hence as a result, the blood got clogged up and the flow rate was slow (*chim sey). Having rested for 10 mins after completion, we were all good to go. Everyone felt some degree of satisfaction, and as for me, this was another huge achievement. Hoo-Aah! ;) - By Rizal