Hello! I just donated blood Its rather meaningful actually. So at first when i entered the hub with my consent form and IC, i had to go through a check by a nurse to see if they can find my blood vessels. Bernard and me were lucky as we were guys and the nurses only had to look at the vessels from the outside and we were ready for the donation. Jovia, Sam and Jiang Fan dropped out halfway for various reason. Then we had to fill up this form which was asking about our health status. They were like asking when did i last corpulate. Well answer is NO...Never ever before. Admin stuff later was going through a medical officer which we had to wait like real long. I think bernard, me and soemin waited for like 45mins before we could see the medical officer. Finally it was my turn to see the medical officer. Walked behind the screen and tests were carried out. The guy who was checking my health status circled this AIDS thingy and said that it needed 12months for the AIDS virus to act up. Then he cancelled my no answer and circled yes for me. I was like "huh? i didn't have sex and never used drugs before?" Next was testing for HB (which i don't know what is that). The nurse used some prickly little mechanism and turned it and shoot at my finger. Felt a short sharp pain and i saw blood. A tube was used to absorb the blood then the nurse dropped the blood in the tube into this blue solution. Not very sure what was she testing for, but anyway, the fun/scary part was next.

I went into the station for donating of blood. The nurse sat me beside this very friendly J2 girl who was also donating blood. It was her second time already and she was very friendly and kept comforting me. Obviously i was SUPER NERVOUS! The nurse came and started doing the necessary stuff. she took like dunno how many tubes and then this bag for the blood and gave me iron tablets. Itstarted off with her labelling the tubes, which she was very quick at, then she injected me with this anesthetic which really hurt alot. Then she took out this BIG needle which was connected to tubes which led to the bag. I was like WOAH! SO BIG?!?! She pushed the needle slowly into my body. It felt really weird. The early entry part is just like feeling nothing. Then as the needle makes its way in, it starts to feel as if some weird thing is crawling around inside you. But thanks to the anesthetic, it did not felt very bad.

I started to exercise my hand and very soon the whole bag was filled. Another nurse came to end the process which included the withdrawal of the needle. Amazingly, i felt nothing at all during the withdrawal. I was even wondering if has the needle been taken out of my body. Sat there for around 5 mins while applying pressure to this cloth which was above my insertion area. Then this man came to bandage my wound and i was ready to go. Felt a little giddy at first but after awhile, i was feeling fine already. Hope that this pack of blood would save someone's life.