I went to SGH to have my blood drawn for some tests during lunch today.. K and I met for lunch at my favourite hawker center Seah Im before we headed to the hospital.
It was the usual procedure: the nurse asked me to squeeze the stress ball with my left hand, and then inserted the needle while i looked the other way.. everything was done in less than 10 seconds. I had a plaster over the wound and walked out as usual. K was sitting in front of the cashier counter waiting. I was 10 steps away from K when i felt something wet on my left arm. To my horror, i saw a thick red line of blood flowing down my left arm.. and the entire plaster was soaking red.. There was basically a lot of blood.. I kinda freaked out cause this was the first time this has ever happened (i've had my blood drawn for like the hundredth time!). So i yelled out to K.
So there i was, in the middle of a waiting area full of people, dripping blood, and yelling at K to get me a piece of tissue. K didn't have any tissue paper so he got into a frenzy and went to the counter and asked one of the nurses for a tissue, got me one, and then asked me to run back for another plaster.. which i did..
5 minutes later, all was good.. we sat at the waiting area, waiting for our turn to make payment.. me trying to recover from the mini shock, and K's finger pressing on my plaster.. =)
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