Bill&Ted's Excellent Blood Donation

Now yesterday we headed to the National Blood Centre, and we brought Bill&Ted along as well. Bill&Ted had expressed interest in donating blood and he'd never donated before, so since we were on our way there we thought why not start now. We too were off to donate, as it's been over 8 month's since our last donation. :S

We did end up heading down to the NBC rather late, around 4pm. Bill&Ted was rather concerned that we would be too late arriving to donate blood, and that if there was time to donate that the nurses would make a rush job of it - a rush job translating to unfriendly painful jabbing of needles into the arm instead of doing it nice and easy. Knowing that the nurses at the NBC were very friendly people we told him so, and that he was sexy enough that the nurses are more likely to be carressing his arm more than necessary. Probably have him remove his shirt instead of rolling up his sleeves just to jab his arm, akin to this ad...



However when we arrived we were informed that they were open for donations till 8pm, so we didn't have to stress ourselves rushing through. A good thing too, as traffic around Jalan Tun Razak after 5pm can be hellish.

So Bill&Ted went ahead to fill the necessary forms and such while we had other stuff to tend to, and when we were done Bill&Ted was already comfortably lying down and was preparing to be jabbed for the first time. Seeing that it was also the nurse's first time at inserting the needles (by the way she was proclaiming out loud all her steps and seeking confirmation from the other nurses observing her...) we decided to be nice to Bill&Ted:

Janvier: So, you gonna look at her insert the needle?
Bill&Ted: No.
Janvier: Hey, look at this itinerary of ours.
Bill&Ted: You're just trying to distract me isn't it?

Well, it was either that or give him a running commentry of what the nurse was doing with a large 16G needle, then later pull the cotton slightly away so he could see the needle piercing the skin into the vein. Like this:

Even if we'd distracted Bill&Ted from his jab, come our turn he watched the nurse insert the needle into the vein. Good thing that didn't scare him off from future donations! :)

'Course, when we said that the nurses took a liking to him we weren't making it up. After donation we would normally head to the pantry area where we would be served a cuppa Milo, a bun and given a week's worth of folic and iron tablets.

With Bill&Ted sitting with us, the nurse came with a fully-laden tray of red bean buns, Julies biscuits, pizza bread, apples, cups of Milo and the iron and folic supplements. The sight of Bill&Ted must make the women all happy, we figures.

Now to see if we can keep donating regularly in three-monthly intervals!