Thursday, January 22, 2009
For any of my classmates who may remember, our school has their annual blood donation drive each year in the campus itself, where students and teachers alike may go to donate potential life-saving blood, red blood cells, white blood cells and platelets.
And I've complained extensively before about how I've tried twice in my four years there to donate, both times unsuccessfully. The first time was in IP2 when I was legally old enough to do so, and the reason I was disallowed to donate was because the doctor or whoever it was who took my blood pressure told me it was too low.
If I remember correctly, the numbers were somewhere around 88/58. Something like that, which in all honesty is quite low. My uncle says blood pressure around 90/60 is considered low. However, that person used an electronic device to measure it.
Today there was a patient who has high blood pressure, and she found some discrepancy in measurements at home and at the clinic. Apparently, this is because the one she owns is electronic, which may under-register the blood pressure, as opposed to the typical mercury level one you normally see.
I asked one of his clinic staff to measure my blood pressure for fun, and it was 110/70. Which is perfectly normal! Hence, I've concluded that the blood pressure measured that time in school was wrong, possibly even 15 units lower than the actual, both for systolic and diastolic. Which makes my disqualification then invalid!
No point getting mad over it now though. The CNY mood is uplifting. I ate so many pineapple tarts today, it might as well have constituted my lunch!
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