Your first time donating blood could go either way. It could be good or bad. Unfortunately for TikTok user @katiepettine, it was the latter, and she is sharing the story of what happened that day, which made her never want to donate plasma again.
A week ago, Katie Pettine posted a TikTok video recounting the horrors she faced while donating plasma. She started the video by saying that the day before, she saw a TikToker who donated plasma as a “side hustle” to make extra money, and she was inspired by it because she wasn’t afraid of needles and had checked details about the procedure on ChatGPT, which didn’t scare her. Fast forward to the day of the donation: Katie arrived at the location and went through several screening tests required before donating plasma. After that, she sat down to donate, but the nurse couldn’t find her vein in the first arm, so she switched to the other arm, which hurt Katie badly. Several steps later, just 2 per cent away from reaching her full plasma donation capacity, Katie fainted and woke up twenty seconds later surrounded by hospital staff.
