It's our company's yearly blood donation drive again! I was afraid of the pain so I haven't donated before. Last year, I was pretty determined. I went down to the cafeteria alone, filled in the forms, handed in to the officer, only to be told I can't participate because I didn't bring my passport (I was only on Employment Pass at that time).
This year, I chickened out. I didn't register.
At around 10am, Kenny, my cube neighbor came and persuaded me to go along as he wanted to donate too. He said it's his first time as well so well, I guess if want to takut, then takut together not that bad.
Turns out it's not painful at all! First they took a drop of my blood from my finger to test whether I have sufficient hemoglobin count in the blood (I think). I was then ushered to the side to wait for my turn. When they inserted the needle, it was a little painful, almost like an insect bite.
I looked at my blood coming out and filling the packet the whole time and Kenny say it's creepy why I kept looking at it. I always think I'll faint looking at blood but turns out I'm completely OK with it!
After the 1st packet is filled, I asked the nurse how many more packets to go lololol. She said "ONE ONLY LAH GIRL HOW MANY YOU WANT TO GIVE"
I nearly passed out the moment they took out the needle. I couldn't hear anything and had a split second vision darkening. I lay down for a good 5 minutes then Im OK again.
Everyone, say Hi to Kenny! He's my cube neighbor and I'm really glad for his existence. I am mostly polite to other colleagues even though we were all pretty close. But with him, I can talk rubbish and actually be my own crappy self! Actually, to be honest, he's a little like Kevin! He used to have hair then he went into this hair salon because he said there's a cun girl inside. Then the cun girl cut all his hair off lol so he became botak.
Bruises for the whole week! Ironically, I had serious headache for the rest of the week. I don't know if it has anything to do with the donation at all. Bleurgh...I don't think it's related! I hadn't had headache for almost 2 months already so can't help wondering.
I definitely wouldn't mind donating again the next round!
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