Today I donated blood after my lessons (NEW!). Only Fang Rui & Wai Yiu came to donate too. Quite fun. The registration process was the same as my previous (failed) attempt at NYP. After that comes the fun part. I got a simple blood test after the doctor interviewed me. I got "shot" with a needle and my blood was dripped into a blue chemical. After that I waited for my turn to donate.
When my turn came, I went to sit on the "bed". Then a nurse came and found my vein (right arm). After that she disinfected the spot with alcohol. I was injected with a colourless liquid which I suspect to be an anaesthetic. After a few minutes, I was "poked" with a needle that is about half the diameter of a Yakult straw. No pain at all! Then a small bag was filled up first for the nurse to take 2 tubes of blood. The nurse then switched the flow to the collection bag.
I just squeezed on the "heart shape squeezy thing" to speed up the process. After it was filled, the nurse removed the needle and I pressed on the hole with a cotton gauze. I waited for a while before a male nurse? came and bandaged my arm with a pink bandage. Fun!
I got some refreshments before I went back to class.
Notes:
- Wai Yiu cannot donate today because one of his family members is down with chicken pox.
- My blood sank in the blue chemical. I saw some spots of other people's blood in the beaker too. Some of those are floating on the chemical.
- I heard from Guo Qing that if you want, you can really speed up the donation process. He saw a woman squeezing really fast because she was rushing for class! Done in 3-4 minutes!
- Only Fang Rui and I got the pink bandages out of the 50+ that donated : )
- All of the refreshments provided gives you iron, water or both.
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