Had my very 1st blood donation today. Finally could be a proud blood donor after being rejected twice in a row in my prevoius attempts. My blood is not dirty and I certainly do not have syphilis, AIDs or other STDs. I was rejected cos I was too young the 1st time and menstruating heavily the 2nd. With my persistance, I finally got to be an official blood donor. I went through the registeration and was interrogated by this doctor. Instead of having to answer a whole series of questions, I could have just told her that I've never had sex. But I shy laa..
Throughout the process, there's no hassle at all. I left with a blue smiley band aid on my arm. The thought of being able to help someone made me real happy. And the needle didn't hurt more than an itch in the arm..
However, I was made to pay for my recklessness in walking straight to the donation drive through training in the evening. I was supposed to abstain from exercise the same day after blood donation. But silly billy me acted hero and decided to get on with training anyway. (Hey, it's not entirely my fault. The training program stated that we were supposed to do the review on the m'sia trip tonight.) I thought losing that bit of blood wouldn't make a difference as one menstruating. Hell, I was wrong. I couldn't catch my breath during training and had to stop halfway through the drills after feeling giddy. It'd be dumb if I were to announce to them, "Oh, cos I went for blood donation today." So I used the excuse of being hit in the face by Vane's ball to explain my giddyness.
I've learnt my lesson now. But I didn't regret going for the blood donation exercise. I'll choose a better timing instead. Now that you know donating blood doesn't hurt that much, you are encouraged to practise good karma too. Just make sure you don't act hero and train afterwards. =)
