There is a blood donation campaign in my school for 3 days
I have been wondering should I or shouldn't I donate blood and make some good deeds?
On the last day of the campaign, I decided to donate blood.
I wanted to donate blood mainly on two reasons, I want to confirm my blood type and donate blood for those who need them.


---Long post alert, read at your own risk--- LOL


My friend and I went to the registration booth and started filling some details. Then we move on to the next booth to check our blood type. They used a some sort of small needle and quickly poke into my finger. It's like a bite from an ant but it wasn't that pain. They collected my blood and do a simple test on my blood using chemical solution which I think is antigen A and B (I studied Biology before). The test turned out to be O-type blood. I was pretty happy when I found out my blood type is O because I could donate more blood as O-type blood can donate to either A, B, AB or O blood group. Blood pressure was being measured later on. On the next booth is collecting the blood bag, they gave us a bag of stuffs include blood bag and few small test tubes. I guess that is for examining blood.

After waiting for like 10 minutes to get to our turn to donate blood. The nurse asked me to sit on the lift chair and I was pretty nervous that time because it was my first time donating blood. Another nurse came, cleansed my arm and injecting some sort of I-don't-know-what into my vein, I only felt a little pinch on that. However, he then bring another needle to collect blood. THE NEEDLE WAS FREAKING HUGE! When he pierced into my vein, I only felt the same pain I felt just now, just a little pinch and it wasn't as pain as I expected though. They also gave me a tube to grab on to let the blood flow faster. If I hold the tube hard enough, I could feel the blood flow through my vein like water flowing down my arm. It was quite scary as I scare I might just press too hard and ran out of blood.

As soon as the bag was about to full, the nurse came and remove the needle. I was asked to lie down for few minutes to let the blood pump through my body. When I was OK to be got out of the chair, I went to the place where they provide the so-called "refreshments" for the donors. Although it was just a small cup of Milo, I finished drinking it then go to my friend's side and talk to him. While talking to him, I felt nausea and wanting to puke. Few moments later I decided to go to the toilet to puke. On my way walking to there, I was fainting. As I walked towards the toilet, I hit a pole and keep on walking. My eyes suddenly got these tiny black dots that starts to expands really quick and I was blacking out. I knocked into a vending machine and fell back. Although I couldn't able to see clearly but I was able to hear what is going on around me. The nurses rushed to me and carried me to the lift chair. They lift my legs up higher than my head to let the blood circulate to my head faster. My eyes was still blurry and couldn't able to speak for that moment. Crowds were circling around me, wanting to see what happened. A nurse is fanning me with a cardboard on my left and another bring a plastic bowl for me to puke.

I was gaining conscious and able to see things clearly. I asked the nurse why I fainted and he said the blood was not flowing fast enough to my brain. My brain is lacking of oxygen so I was fainted. He also said maybe it was my body size was small. I was given a rest for minutes and asked a lot of times, "OK?", "Feeling better now?", "OK already?". I was allowed to get off the lift chair and I take my seat on the side. My friend finished donating blood doesn't feel anything horrible like mine, he ate the bread and 100Plus they gave. He then went to the library to take his bag while I waited him there. I also realised that I puked a little on my shirt, yucks. After a while, we go to attend classes.

It was really an unforgetful experience to have blood donation and fainting in progress. *facepalm

There is a blood donation campaign in my school for 3 days
I have been wondering should I or shouldn't I donate blood and make some good deeds?
On the last day of the campaign, I decided to donate blood.
I wanted to donate blood mainly on two reasons, I want to confirm my blood type and donate blood for those who need them.


---Long post alert, read at your own risk--- LOL


My friend and I went to the registration booth and started filling some details. Then we move on to the next booth to check our blood type. They used a some sort of small needle and quickly poke into my finger. It's like a bite from an ant but it wasn't that pain. They collected my blood and do a simple test on my blood using chemical solution which I think is antigen A and B (I studied Biology before). The test turned out to be O-type blood. I was pretty happy when I found out my blood type is O because I could donate more blood as O-type blood can donate to either A, B, AB or O blood group. Blood pressure was being measured later on. On the next booth is collecting the blood bag, they gave us a bag of stuffs include blood bag and few small test tubes. I guess that is for examining blood.

After waiting for like 10 minutes to get to our turn to donate blood. The nurse asked me to sit on the lift chair and I was pretty nervous that time because it was my first time donating blood. Another nurse came, cleansed my arm and injecting some sort of I-don't-know-what into my vein, I only felt a little pinch on that. However, he then bring another needle to collect blood. THE NEEDLE WAS FREAKING HUGE! When he pierced into my vein, I only felt the same pain I felt just now, just a little pinch and it wasn't as pain as I expected though. They also gave me a tube to grab on to let the blood flow faster. If I hold the tube hard enough, I could feel the blood flow through my vein like water flowing down my arm. It was quite scary as I scare I might just press too hard and ran out of blood.

As soon as the bag was about to full, the nurse came and remove the needle. I was asked to lie down for few minutes to let the blood pump through my body. When I was OK to be got out of the chair, I went to the place where they provide the so-called "refreshments" for the donors. Although it was just a small cup of Milo, I finished drinking it then go to my friend's side and talk to him. While talking to him, I felt nausea and wanting to puke. Few moments later I decided to go to the toilet to puke. On my way walking to there, I was fainting. As I walked towards the toilet, I hit a pole and keep on walking. My eyes suddenly got these tiny black dots that starts to expands really quick and I was blacking out. I knocked into a vending machine and fell back. Although I couldn't able to see clearly but I was able to hear what is going on around me. The nurses rushed to me and carried me to the lift chair. They lift my legs up higher than my head to let the blood circulate to my head faster. My eyes was still blurry and couldn't able to speak for that moment. Crowds were circling around me, wanting to see what happened. A nurse is fanning me with a cardboard on my left and another bring a plastic bowl for me to puke.

I was gaining conscious and able to see things clearly. I asked the nurse why I fainted and he said the blood was not flowing fast enough to my brain. My brain is lacking of oxygen so I was fainted. He also said maybe it was my body size was small. I was given a rest for minutes and asked a lot of times, "OK?", "Feeling better now?", "OK already?". I was allowed to get off the lift chair and I take my seat on the side. My friend finished donating blood doesn't feel anything horrible like mine, he ate the bread and 100Plus they gave. He then went to the library to take his bag while I waited him there. I also realised that I puked a little on my shirt, yucks. After a while, we go to attend classes.

It was really an unforgetful experience to have blood donation and fainting in progress. *facepalm