Hey heys.. i'm out of camp alr =P
Hehe.. its been an ok week i guess.. preparations for NDP are gonna get more intensive though, and we'd soon be doing our rehearsals at the actual place at marina.. sometime in june..
Some highlights of the week.. i just did my 1st blood donation on wednesday =X was kinda frightening la.. after this chunk of administrative stuff about how we are responsible for the blood we give, i was introduced to this bag larger than my hand =X (and my hand's pretty big mind you =.= ) that was going to be used to hold my blood.. it looked like it could contain as much fluid as my water bottle too.. =S but after coming so far, how could i back out? Lan lan lor..
And i believe the lady who poked me with the really thick needle, probably did it wrongly.. although i was amongst the first to donate.. i wasn't the first to finish =S by quite a bit too.. true enough, this other lady came to inspect.. pulled the needle out a bit, then pushed it in at another angle.. it started flowing better.. all the while.. i was too speechless to say anything..
They even gave us this heart shaped squeezy thingy.. supposedly to let us squeeze to help blood circulation and make the collection an easier task.. it didn't help me much.. cuz everytime i squeezed i was vaguely aware of that needle that was inside my arm.. It didn't help either, that the two ppl donating blood beside me were having a conversation on the wierder blood donation cases.. I heard about this guy who was so "ON" about squeezing the heart thing to circulate his blood, that while he was squeezing it dem fast, he suddenly fainted!! =X another case was 2 frens, one donating and one observing, were curious to see if blood was flowing or not.. the one observing went to lift up the needle, then blood started spurting out... o_O scary huh?
finally, after a long time, my blood bag was full.. and the lady came back to me with these iron pills that were supposed to help me regenerate the blood cells faster, and this cream for the blue-black mark that was bound to appear cuz she poked me wrongly initially.. (i knew something wasn't right =/ )
ahhh.. other than that it was ok la.. just hope all that effort actually helps someone.. would be quite sad if my blood got rejected cuz i'm too fat or something =X (TOUCH WOOD!!)
The refreshments after that made everything worthwhile though =P haha.. makes you wonder what's the real reason why some ppl actually donate blood for ^^