Yesterday I went for blood donations with the twins accompanied by Kailyn! It was my first time going for this and I swear I was super scared because I'm really scared of needles and I can't even imagine seeing my blood flow out.
But I've always wanted to do it ever since PJ had it last year and I totally forgot to bring the form back to let my parents sign it so I missed the chance. And now that np has it too, I told myself I'm not gonna miss it ever again. Anyway Tian couldn't donate because her veins were too small and so Rong and I proceeded with the test of our iron level. Rong passed that but in the end the nurses couldn't find her veins or either that it was too thin and small too, she couldn't donate. So ended up it was just me alone who was gonna donate blood! I was really freaking out but out of 1-10 it was a scary level of 4 to me.
Before donating blood, I had SQTR (Service Quality & Tourism Resorts) tutorial and that room was as cold as the north pole, I was shivering like hell even though I had my cardigan. The nurses even gave me a blanket while I was sitting on that long chair but I was still so cold the nurses kept asking if I was okay. I tried to stop shivering and I felt a little warmer.
Anyway, while the nurse was applying the alcohol on my arm, I told her, "Please don't tell me when you're putting in the needle..."
I kept looking upwards but I could definitely feel the first needle went in which was the anesthesia. It wasn't painful at all but there was this weird tight feeling. After that the nurse waited for awhile for the anesthesia to work before inserting the thicker needle for the blood to come out.
Here's some pics taken by Kailyn hehe (They couldn't stand beside me....)
Why so shiok LOL
Pardon my cui face I really felt cui yesterday :(
It's crazy how after she inserted the needle, the bag of blood was already three-quarters full. I think my blood flowed too fast. I was done in less than 10 minutes and before taking out the needle, the nurse told me again, "Want to take picture of the needle?"
I was amazed at the thickness of the needle in my vein but I couldn't feel anything at all.
My hands are feeling a little jelly right now because I feel so disgusted by the thickness of the needle but at the same time so thankful that I couldn't feel a single shit at all :)
After removing the needle the nurse wanted to bandage my arm and she was holding this roll of ugly yellow one so I asked if I could have the bright green bandage instead and she thought I liked the dinosaur print on it. Anyway the green bandage was way cuter hehe.
The nurse let me hold the bag of blood I donated and it was heavy woaaaaah. And throughout the whole donation, the nurses kept talking to me and asking if I was okay because I was so cold to the touch. They gave me water to drink as well. So nice of them :') So glad 1 bag of my blood can save 3 lives!
After getting up and taking the free refreshments, I wanted to walk out of ourspace to my next tutorial class but all of a sudden I felt so dizzy and I totally flopped on the floor. I didn't faint! But my head was so so so so dizzy it never felt so heavy before I can only remember looking at Kailyn's face and trying to keep conscious. I lay down on the floor and I don't even know if I fell asleep or not but many images just came into my mind and when I opened up my eyes I was wondering why am I still in ourspace. It felt so bad so I tried to eat the refreshment that they gave me for free but after a sip of milo, I felt like throwing up so badly..... I've never felt this way my whole life it was as if I'm about to die.
I think the reason why I felt like this was because, it was my first time donating and also, my blood flowed out too fast not enough blood was circulated to my head and that's why I felt so bad. Thank god that twins and Kailyn were there with me because if I was alone, I wouldn't know what to do at all. Tian elevated my head so that I could lie down on her lap while Rong and Kailyn went to buy waffles for me to eat because I had lessons straight after and I've got no time to eat :( the dizzy spells only went away about 20 minutes later and I slowly walked to class afterwards.
My tutor was so nice even though I was really late for tutorial and my classmates also asked if I was okay. I was so pale and I broke out in cold sweat like half the time. I met a quarter of bravoso after school and we went off to get ice cream from ourspace. But it was so sweet I didn't finished it.
We went to find the GLs at LT22 but the crowd made it hard to breathe because it felt so stuffy and my dizzy spells were slowly coming back. I walked off to a drain because my stomach kept churning and churning. Suddenly I became a baby merlion and I puked out all the ice cream I ate and I think the waffle I ate earlier on too. Julian was so nice I remembered he pat my back and hold my hair or something and Van helped me to massage my neck so that I'll feel better. Wanna thank Liyin for her water as well and her constant reminder for me to drink water and she's always asking if I'm okay :') Thank you so much bravoso.
Anyway just wanna encourage everyone to try out blood donating because it doesn't hurt at all and it's really a good thing because think about the 3 lives you could save!!
My mum praised me because she said doing a good deed when my birthday is coming is good.
Okay shall end off here byeeeeeee.
