oh bloody, oh blood ah!
i am a blood donor.
yesterday i was at the Philippine General Hospital to donate blood, putting a check on the 'blood replacement' box at the info sheet. my dad is scheduled for a sinus operation (forgot the exact medical term, sorry) and he needs to have a blood donor for replacement (in any case he'd be needing packs of blood for his operation, as i loosely understand it).
me! me! me! i insistently raised my hand to volunteer. why, it's for my father's. i may have been a very good brat to him for ages now and at least this can be one way to tell him i love him.
about 1 bag (450cc) of blood was extracted from my right arm. this was after the blood screening they'd be conducting for all blood donor wannabes. it's like pushing yourself to glam and fortune to be chosen as one of the StarStruck finalists. at first you'd be enduring the
'kagat ng langgam' sensation, and then you'd feel nothing after, really. i was even waiting for some aches and discomfort but they weren't that generous. in less than 7 minutes you'll have a bag full of your stinking blood. a rest of 10 minutes after the blood-sucking rites will be awarded to the healthy donors. resting is even longer than the process itself. and mind you, i waited for more than 3 hours for blood screening!
and i think the stunt is making me crazy. every person i walked by (that i know of course), i explicitly recount what i did! it's like winning the lottery! actually no. more than winning the lottery!
i feel human. now i can shout the world, with dignity and some cockiness, that i am human. i've given what is substantially part of me. i gave blood. i'm alive!
i wonder how more fulfilled and excited organ donors are. if i'm going ga-ga over what i did, how much more do they sound? or is it just me who's going nuts for more than 24 hours now? i'm really proud of what i did man get out'a here!
count three months and i'd be fit again to donate my warm blood. if not by that period, i'd like to give it a go some other time. try it.
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5:46 PM
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