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I had to go to the Carrefour of Tian Mu where I worked for two days as janitor/cleaner, to fill out some paperwork so  they could pay me my wage. On the way to the megastore I saw the bus for blood donation, so an idea occurred to me: why not? I have always wanted to donate my vital liquid but after my last experience in Panama, which was traumatic, I put it to the back of my mind. The problem is that I have this kind of weird vein,  I think they called it "rolling vein", and the technician/nurse at CSS of Transistmica sucked at finding it. I remembered when I was in CSS I could not fill the bag after half an hour of "working hard" and the blood coagulated so it was all wasted. The worse thing was that when they removed the needle they did not do it right so my blood pressure changed suddenly, and I became dizzy and fainted. The docs had to come and rescue me by lifting my legs above my head. To put it simply: it was a horrible experience at CSS, yes the one near the National University where they always protested.

The experience I had today at Tian Mu was very pleasant. The nurse was able to locate my vein pretty fast, she asked me to change arm though. The donation process was very fast, less than 15 minutes, and she even took a picture of me (well I asked if I could take a selfie, she offered to do it for me so I could hold the sign). After the drawing was done she told me a list of dos and don'ts and then I was on my way. Smooth. By the way, I got some souvenirs like a bookmarker and a hat. They gave me juice and cookies too. Something that surprised me was that, technically I am underweight  (now weighing 56.5KG which is too low for my height, a month ago I was 63.3KG), they still allowed me to donate. The nurse did say that, if I weighed over 60KG I would be able to donate 500cc.