Blood Donation :)

Blood Donation? I thought that I would never be asked to donate blood ever since I've been exempted to donate when I was still studying at my previous school. Blood is thicker than water, when I heard that my aunt needed 4 units of blood, I did not hesitate to volunteer because she was someone who was important in my life. And so I asked permission from our professor in Western Civilization, Mr. Cuartero, that I be excused from our class because I had to go to Veterans Hospital to donate blood. My dad accompanied me to the hospital and we reached the hospital at around 3:00. We went straight to the Blood Bank department. I had to fill out this form, answer questions and POOF. In the end, I was rejected. Not because I had a communicable disease, not because I was hypertensive, but because I was underweight. There were a lot of people who were donating their blood and I was the only one who was not allowed to donate blood on the 1st screening just because I was underweight. And then we went to my aunt's room and paid her a visit. It was my first time to actually see the anesthesiologist perform Pre-Op teaching and she was really entertaining questions from my aunt and I. It was also my first time to see a nurse get the informed consent.The OB-Oncologist also visited and asked where my aunt was getting blood because there was no available Blood Type O stock. My aunt told her that one was rejected (ME) then the doctor asked "Sino? Itong batang to? E mukha ngang siya pa may kailangan ng dugo e." Then we all laughed. :)

Blood Donation Part 2 was a FAIL again. Haha. I was rejected before because of my weight and now, rejected again because of the same reason.