Week 9: I can't wait for the next blood drive now because i know it won't hurt!

i had a health check/blood test the other day! i finally gave blood - not in the extract-5-litres-for-a-blood-drive sense but more of a let's-take-6ml-and-fill-it-in-a-syringe-for-HIV-testing sense.

you wouldn't believe the anxiety i went through for the 5 days leading up to the bloody health check. i was 100% certain that the entire blood-taking procedure would hurt like a million bees with stingers extended descending upon a 1mm square area of skin...MY SKIN (i know realistically that 1mm square area of skin cannot accommodate a million stingers - but let's assume it's a hypothetical situation loaded with imagination). i was fretting the entire time. i kept asking anyone and everyone who's ever given blood or had blood taken if it would hurt. and fuck, did i get back some horror stories.

so here i was, fretting and sweating about the whole damned thing. i was so sick with worry that i couldn't even have restful sleep the night before the procedure. heeding the words of advice my cousin gave me, i drank a ton of water the night before the blood-taking as well as the morning of said event (incidentally, it was also the same cousin who told me that they couldn't locate her vein and had to rummage under her skin with the hypodermic needle before they eventually found one - that could not give blood jengjengjeng and in the end she ended up having a huge bruise on her arm).

anyway, it all went fine and dandy. the nurse found my vein in an instance (it hurt when the needle went in, but it was tolerable - i've had bigger hurts than that RAWR navel piercing etc but to be honest it didn't really hurt when i had my navel pierced JENGJENGJENG) and within seconds, blood was pumping and filling up the little syringe. it was kinda cool. i actually stared at the syringe the entire time because it was kinda fascinating. in a weird way.

actual blood is pumping through my veins! and i never realised how dark my blood was. it was like the colour of red wine - maybe just a slight tinge darker. could it be the reason why some people claim that i am dark and twisty inside? it's my fucking blood, geez, so stop discriminating against me. it's genetic ok? it can't be helped.

and all i have now is just a tiny little pinprick scar which will undoubtedly disappear within a week. perhaps i might even forget it ever existed! i wish everything was as simple as that.