A Donate Day...

Finally, today made up my mind to go down to SGH early in the morning. Why am i going to SGH? Am i sick? Hahaha...nope just went down there to register as a bone marrow donor. Actually came across afew years about this programme but I didn't have the courage to register until today.

I guess most of people know what is bone marrow donation right? Just for a brief explaination of this programme. This programme is called "Bone Marrow Donor Programme" is a Singapore-based non-profit organisation dedicated to building and managing a Register of Singaporean volunteers who are willing to donate their bone marrow to patients of leukemia and other blood diseases.

So think for a long time...i finally made up my mind to do something special in my life. Now I hoping that mine are match to someone who is in need of bone marrow. But from the nurse, she say until now still not many people have the chance been match. Quite disappointed... anyway, the progress of the registation is quite fast, just fill up a particular form and take some blood sample for test and thats all.

After that, i went to HSA buliding which is near by to...donate blood. Haha...people may say me siao rite...but thats what i can do for the people. Coz i dun have huge sum of money to donate. And people say...got money use it, if not then use own capabilities to help loh. Anyway, just spend an hour sitting, watch your own blood move thru the tude into the bag. Kinda satifaction coz doing some good deed.

So once reaching there, same as usual need to declare truth that know about the giving blood to someone...after that, a blood test whether enough iron. Lastly donate blood... but today i kinda "lucky" coz they people at there are trying using the new type of donating blood bag so i was around by the interns of nurses. Looking how the procedure of using the new bag. Actually this bag quite good design coz last time will require to get blood specimens at the end of blood donation. But now is the opposite as there is a additional small bag for containing blood and much easier for them to retrieve blood specimens.

So after the blood donating, i went to cafe to get some free drink. While drinking my hot milo, saw this wall call "River of Life" it covers with different color of fishes with names indicate. Thos names are the regular blood donor which in order to get the fish to be place on the wall must need 50 times for guys and 35 times for ladies...wow...how can my name be placed onto the wall...i think need to ask whether donating plasma also can consider or not...coz if consider, i can donate plasma for 12 times a year rather donating whole blood for 4 times a year...compare this i think it will be more faster rite...heehee

Anyway, now i will start to donate whenever i can...praying for my bone marrow can match to the patient that is in need...

P.S Been a donor of phyiscal, i feel very satified coz i now when i live i can donate my blood n bone marrow. Moreover, when i die...my organs are also can be useful to people that is much more needed...so i have no regrets of sigining up...hope that more poeple can think this way to help others, beside its also doing good deeds...