Platelets donation was tiring

2019. 8. 28. Tuesday. Cloudy.

The last time platelets donation was two weeks ago. Today officially I could do another donation. I reserved platelets donation yesterday and I visited the center today at 6 pm. I felt a little bit of worry because it has been only two weeks. If I lose too many platelets, my blood won’t be clotted. So I will be bleeding a lot and faint, die. Scary scary. Anyway this was the second time for me. I did all procedures smoothly. But something was going to be bad. That thing happened when the nurse came to me and said, “it will take about 1 hour and 10 minutes.”.
Two weeks ago it only took 35 minutes. My platelets seemed to be not sufficient today. I had no idea how uncomfortable it would be.
For 30 minutes, I thought it wasn’t bad at all. When the time passing 40 minutes, my arm was being numb. It wasn’t like totally numb though. It was uncomfortable enough. I wanted to move my arm but I should have not better because of the big needle in my arm. And the nurse kept urging me to do fist exercise. The machine kept alarming for low pressure. I didn’t know what’s the problem. The low pressure thing made drawing speed slower and the time longer.
After all I had to stay there for 1 hour and 30 minutes. It was boring and uncomfortable moment. Maybe donating platelets in a row wasn’t a good idea. Or maybe donation every 2 weeks is not good.
Anyway mother just nagged me about me writing this thing as ‘playing the phone’ so, bye!
​

​