Tan Hui Juan

Monday, April 29, 2013 @ 11:14 PM

Blood Donation

Woooo! Hi earthlings!

After much talk about it I finally went ahead and did my second blood donation! This time round in an actual bloodbank (my first was in school) and with Velle! So Velle waited for me to end school and we headed over to Bloodbank@Woodlands which is located inside Woodlands Civic Centre, the building right behind Causeway Point.

It's actually on the 5th Storey and somehow the escalator ends at the 4th Storey so you're better off taking the lift from the 1st Storey. Haha. And here we are!

First we have to fill up our usual forms that you have to fill every single time you donate blood. More on the health declaration and all.

Yay. And they gave me a new blood donor card which looks so cute. People with Positive blood type gets the yellow card while the people with Negative blood type gets the blue ones. Velle didn't get one cause she's a first time donor. Guess she'll get the paper version one first mailed to her after awhile.

Did the usual blood pressure and temperature checks in the "Medical Screening Room" and a blood test to check my haemoglobin level to ensure I am healthy enough to make a donation! The hole they poked on my finger to check my blood. It's not pain la at all, like someone pluck a strand of hair off you or something.

Right into the donation room where the nurse then check for my vein. They then first injected some pain killers in me and then after awhile poked the actually blood sucking needle in me. I'm kind of pain tolerant so it doesn't really hurt at all. But even Velle say it's not pain okay!

My blood!

The place looks kind of like a hospital, very quiet also cause I think it's quite an awkward timing also. I was actually quite worried that there would be a lot of people cause I didn't manage to make an appointment because of my stupid SingPass but I guess it was fine!

Me cam-whoring while the blood sucker needle continues to suck my blood off me. HAHAHA.

Happy Velle on her first blood donation. She was really nervous and excited! Haha.

Me after my blood donation resting on my seat and waiting for Velle to be done.

The waiting and resting area!

Free refreshments for donors! Love the biscuits there, Velle and I were noming none stop cause we were hungry! We didn't notice it was 8pm already and we haven't had dinner! Haha.

A simple diagram to show where your blood goes after donation.

Feeling good after blood donation!

Me and Velle feeling very accomplished! We promised to go for our next donation together again! Hehe.

Our bandages! As much as I am happy that they gave ma a pink bandage but why Velle's bandage cuter one?! Got smiley face one ley. Mine like so boring. ):

Mission accomplished!

Check out more on Blood Donation process and where you can donate from Health Sciences Authority's website. Do give it a try! Save lives! :D

Do visit www.hsa.gov.sg/donorcare or call 62200183 to book your appointment or visit www.donorweb.org for a list of bloodmobiles near you. (:

Bloodbank@Woodlands
Woodlands Civic Centre
(Opposite Causeway Point)
900 South Woodlands Drive
#05-07 Singapore 730900

Luckily we chose donate blood first before eating cause by the time we finish donating the Bloodbank was ready to close! However we were famished so we headed over to Causeway Point's Food Republic for some dinner. :)

I decided to gave Lam's Abalone Noodle a try because of the long queue and they have photos of the owner and artists like Jay Chou at their stall!

Here is it. Actually it is like quite disappointing, the serving was quite small, noodle was meh. Really like the egg and fish ball though. But other than that, nothing much that interest me. This bowl of noodle cost $6.50 and it has 3 cubes of abalone, which taste quite meh also la.

Ya, and then that's basically it lo. After dinner then head home already cause there's school tomorrow. I'll see if I'll be able to blog again tomorrow. Haha. Bye earthlings!

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