Double Shots

3 weeks ago we went to this hospital to extract some of our blood for screening. It suppose to be last week where we will donate our blood to the patient for a bypass surgery. Due to the patient was having a flu, the operation delayed until this morning.

I didn't realized the water I drank in the morning was not enough. On the patient chair, the small needle poked into my flesh then followed by the bigger needle into my biggest left arm vein. The blood, however stopped probably before 100cc. After several attempt from the nurse to make the blood flow, she finally gave up and pulled the needle out and showed me a drip of my thick blood. It was so thick... like melted chocolate...

She let me chose to rest and come back or go back home if I felt uncomfortable. Of course I have to continue after sculling a liter of water or so, else I won't be contributing anything to the patient. 

When I went back on the patient chair, the vein which was poked earlier cannot be used because it was already swollen a bit after the nurse did some blood seeking gesture. Right arms vein has to be poked, no choice.

Fortunately it went very smoothly on the 2nd attempt and today donated 450cc after some hiccups. So remember to drink at least 1 litter of water before ya blood donation.