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I recently received a mailer from Nuffnang for an invitation to their new initiative…

Are you my type? – first and ever blogger blood drive in Singapore.

Nuffnang's Blood Donation Drive

I’ve never donated blood in my life before, not because I’m scared of the idea, but it’s one of those things that you want to do but too lazy to make time for.

I’ve mentioned in my previous blog post, about my friend’s sister who was recently diagnosed with cancer. In the last week, she had to go through two major operations to remove some tumors in her body. As the tumors were very near her vital organs, she lost a lot of blood. My friend said needed four bags of blood transfusion during the last operation. When I visited her at Changi hospital, she was receiving blood transfusion for yet another bag of blood because her body was too weak.

We all assume that we aren’t facing a blood shortage crisis in Singapore, hence, why should we donate? Some of you, like me, want to donate but just keep pushing the idea aside because it’s too troublesome. Facing my friend’s sister, frail and helplessly lying on the ICU bed, with tubes probing into her veins and other “holes”, I feel we shouldn’t always have to find excuses for ourselves.

I want to donate blood, hence I will this Saturday.

Will you?

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