Worst Blood Donating Experience Ever!!

this week, First Aid Unit (FAU) of TARC is having blood donation at college. so Me n other coursemate went to donate blood. it is the 6th time i donate blood 2day. the surprisingly the seat for blood donor is half of the previous one which i attended. therefore, the queue was quite long. oh well.. dis is the small matter.. sumthing even worse happened later..

and finally, it reached my turn.. i took a seat, which design for right hand donor. still, all da nurses seems to be very busy.. until i saw a quite pretty nurse, walking towards me, i was thinking, yay.. finally a leng lui nurse attending me.. ^^ as she came closer, i realise her make up was so... THICK! thick until a.. u can see a line of powder in between her eyebrow and eyelashes. LOL!

oh well.. put that aside, back to real story... as usual, questioned me my name, blood type, do some setup.. wrap my arm with the blood pressure cuff, and start to pump to increase the pressure, until very tight.. somehow i still can resist, but i dunno it shouldnt be so tight, until my hand is numb.. nvm.. the best part is, the moment she poke the needle it, wat everyone expect is blood flow through the tube, but it didnt!! which means she didnt get the vein! OMG! wats next? she pull out the needle a bit, twist a few degree, and poke again, still NO BLOOD flowing out.. and she continues... after several attempt, we finally we saw blood flowing out, but not much, stucked halfway in da tube..

so she call another nurse, which looks more senior/proffesional, despite she looks older and more fierce. after she hav a look, 1st thing she comment is "the vein is slightly up here, u should hav poke there.." i was thinking, OMG?! FTW?! a newbie on training, treating me as guinea pig? after she hav a look, she pull out the needle a bit again, twisted 80degree, poke in! and YES! finally the blood flow through.. dis call professional.. oh did i mention that all the poke, pull and twist of the needle were all under the skin, as the needle NEVER pull out b4? somehow i dun feel pain though. XD

oh well, we had some light refreshment after donating blood. guess wat.. not only i'm the victim, two of my fren had bad experiences too.. one had the same case as me, another one worse, got both of his hands poked.. pity him... anyway, normally a blood donor will be alrite after hav a good rest, and dun do any heavy exercise. however, when i reached home n took off my t-shirt, dis is wat i saw...


mayb is due to the blood pressure cuff was too tight, no wonder i feel numb, which i dun feel it during my previous donation. not only that, when i took out the paster, this is wat i saw..


u can see a red dot at the left, dats the where the needle was poked and pulled. and a big bruise on the right, theres where the needle was poke too to draw my blood, most probably the vein is damaged due to some twisting, causes blood clog outside the vein, under the skin, dats call bruise. imagine the needle was poked parallel to my hand, and then pulled out, twist until 80degree to the right, and poked in again.. and the consequences of doing dis is u get bruise after donating blood.. this is my 1st time experience all dis shit after 5 times of donating blood..

moral of the story is, is betta to get a old, fierce nurse, rather than a pretty, young, good looking nurse, attend u for blood donation..

oh well.. is 1am now, yet i havnet study for EIS test 815am LATER.. gonna study now.. ciaoz!! =D