Today, I did something incredibly rewarding—I went and donated blood! It has been a very long time since my last donation, and it was actually my first time ever donating here in Sydney, Australia. When I was younger (or should I say, when I was a kid? Haha), I used to donate quite frequently. However, because I lived in the UK for a few years, I was barred from donating for a long time due to the strict restrictions surrounding Mad Cow Disease (vCJD) from that era, as resear