A friend of mine (Christine) was invited me to the Brickfield temple this morning and we planned to go to the temple in the afternoon. So we were there around 2pm. The first thing that come into my mind is "Blood Donation". I remember the first time when I do blood donation was about 8 Years back during my college time and the first time I did blood donation was with a very special person who are staying in Melbourne now. What a memorable memories!
Crowd along the temple
Crowd along the temple
Crowd along the temple
Temple choir
Christine doing donationTalking back about the blood donation campaign, I remembered I was rejected few things when I was willingly offered my blood to the bank blood. The reasons are very simple:
* Underage
* Blood not enough of IRON
* Low blood pressure
Hence, that shows I am a person who have difficulty to donate blood. Till this morning, I do not have any intention of donating blood until a friend of my message me to go to the Temple. First thing that came into my mind was "How many hours did I slept yesterday?"... hmmm... good question huh? I slept @ 12.30am and woke up @8am. Based on the calculation, I just passed the first important requirement which is above the requirement 7.30 hours. Hoho!!
When I was in the queue of donating blood, I was asked to filled up some questionnaires about my health condition and I found that I AM HEALTHY and NORMAL! Hurray! Once I had finished the questionnaires, I was asked to go to another queue to test out my blood type. A man who are not a doctor started used a small device and punch on my finger. Ouch! It was really pain but not that pain and my blood start pinching out from my finger. He then used a small sucker to sucked up the blood from my finger and placed it on a board that mixed with sort of a chemical to see which blood group I am belonging to. But I am not gonna announce it here tho :P
After a while, he started to take another sucker to sucked up my blood in the second round. Then he put a drop of my blood into a glass of a blue chemical to see whether my blood will sink or float. This is identify whether my blood contains sufficient IRON or not. However, my blood was floated on the surface but it slowly sinked to the bottom which indicates that it's hard to identify the level of IRON that contained in my blood. Hence, he started to used a machine to test on my blood. Based on his statement, the IRON level must at least reach 12.50 in order to be on eligible blood donator. Phew! I got 12.70 which is just nice to be eligible. Thanks god of no rejection this time!
Ok, once I have passed the first level, I was again asked to seek for the duty doctor for another questionnaires session. The doctor that I met is quite "fierce" and "strict". The reason of seeing this doctor is to identify the amount of blood that I can donate. After the questionnaire session, the amount of blood that I can donate is 450 CC. Good enough! Or else I will fainted down if I am ask to give more!
Here is the picture that Christine taken during the blood donation:
Happy face before donating blood
Checking blood pressure
Nurse checking on my blood pressure
450cc Blood pack
My 450cc blood pack
OMG! Injection!
Blood flowing
Blood flowing
Blood flowing
Blood flowing
My blood
After donation
Blur after MILO
Candles that we bought to offer to BuddhaWe spent about 2 hours in the temple and it was very very crowded. I am happy that I have made different to the world today.
Happy Wesak day!
-Kay Nny-
Happy Wesak day!
-Kay Nny-
