Blood Donation at Dhoby Ghaut

I never give up pestering persuading friends around me to donate blood. I feel that giving out blood is a noble responsibility. It saves lives at no cost!

I skipped donating blood once after June and felt obliged to donate blood right after my exam. (You can see that exam took away lots of my freedom =.=) On the 4th of November, I dragged Alvin hard along to donate blood at the Blood Bank, Dhoby Ghaut. Alvin had blood-donating phobia after his one and only one donation in campus time. He felt dizzy after the donation and since then he never donated blood but just sat at a side supporting me. @@ After my never ceasing compelling effort, he finally gave in to my pestering and agreed to donate blood.

This time we had sufficient sleep and made sure we did not have too heavy nor light meal before the donation. We passed through all the requirement like hemoglobin test, blood pressure etc and proceeded to the room to start donating. Alvin asked the staff a series of questions when she was poking inserting the big needle into his vein to get blood. I bet he was very nervous but he denied it. By the time my blood oozed out for 450ml, Alvin was also done with his. (His vein is wider). We then happily left with a pack of milo.

After three times donating blood here, I am finally granted a permanent donation card. :) *happy for no reason*

For your information, it is very convenient to donate blood in Singapore as the blood banks are located near to MRT stations. They even have a professional website updating us what is needed critically at the moment. So those who are fit and are domiciled in Singapore, please donate blood regularly :)

In Good Fit

Finally after months of unfit in 2012, I am in good fit to donate blood again :)

Stress ball from Health Science Authority (HSA)

I am happy because the blood can save lives and at the same times, it means I am healthy :) No more fainting and unconsciousness. :) I actually begged the doctor to let me donate as he afraid I would faint again, convincing him I had a good sleep and nice meal before this. Feeeeeeel really greeaaat now...

One more interesting to share, we can actually donate platelet and plasma every month, read more details from HSA.

Blood Donation Drive

Again, the blood donation drive was here in my campus. The blood donation drive actually fell on June 2 and 3, but since I had my external exam on June 3, I couldn't make it for that 2 days. Firstly because the night before June 2, I slept less than 4 hours and of course I couldn't make it as well on June 3 as I had to go out for exam at 9am and finished the exam at 4pm (don't ask me about the result, it will only be released 8 weeks later, and I don't have much confidence on it).

I was happy as Foong Kheng finally donated her invaluable blood in her campus; each and every time I would be very happy when my friends told me they went donating blood (this made me proud as my force persuasive effort worked). I never give up pestering convincing friends around me to donate blood, as I think donating blood is quite a noble act. Up to now, we still don't have artificial blood, so blood is very much precious and crucial for accident victims who lose profound blood.

Since I couldn't make it on both days, I just tried my luck by asking my friend (one of the helpers) when would another block of my campus (foundation school) hold the donation drive. I was so happy when she told me the date fell on June 4 and 5. So I slept like no tomorrow after my exam to get myself ready to do the noble job the next day, but again I didn't donate blood that day since Kynne asked me to wait for him to donate the day after that as he would like to go FES (engineering school) to support Kelvin in the FEStival. And I really warned him not to FFK me, as during the last donation drive, he didn't donate at the last minute (which until now I still don't why he couldn't donate, he told me he was diagnosed HIV positive @@, but who trusts him?). Finally the day arrived, after the interesting Public Speaking tutorial class, we went to donate blood in PB (foundation school), and I dragged along my best friend, ShuZhen to go with me as well. We were actually pretty sincere to do such noble deed, as right after the hike up of petrol price, Kynne still drove us to donate blood, we were great (wai tay) enough, weren't we? *smile*

Shuzhen didn't promise to donate, actually she just wanted to know her blood type but ended up donating 450ml while Kynne and me donating 300ml. Well, three of us were still as healthy as ever after the donation. So for those who never go donating blood, it's not that scary la, though the needle is indeed big and long! Shuzhen was so scared before and during the donation, but after the donation she told me she might consider to donate again! See, as I always tell my friends, once you have the first time, surely second time, third time, fourth time and forever will follow!!

A bit information for your knowledge, our body has 5500ml of blood, so 300ml or 450ml is just the tip of the iceberg la, it is just 5.45% and 8.18% respectively of the blood in our body.

Later on, Shuzhen told me her sis asked her not to eat chicken as Blood Type B people should avoid chicken as much as possible. I once read a forwarded e-mail about the right food for each category of blood type. So last night I spent a bit of my time to look for the related info. Here it is. And more details at Eating Right At Your Blood Type.

I was inspired much to donate blood by my beloved dad, so you might just be the next one inspired by me... *syok sendiri*

No?