Giving Blood

James07

James07

James07

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I did it today, felt really good too! Quite nerve racking but well worth it, i might now have just saved somebodys ilfe...

Ive booked another donation for the 8th of Jan, i can't wait to do it again.

I felt really good about myself once i left the place because i know that ive just done one of the most selfless things i could imagine doing..

Plus the women who saw me & took my donation was lovely which helped settle my nerves a little. Once the needle was in i was fine! Big wuss :p

Just thought id share.

James07.
 
Well done. It's well worth it, only take about an hour, i suppose it depends how well you bleed :p

Did my thread about my 3 donations in a year spur you on a bit? If so, then that makes me happy :)

Next time watch the needle go in, it's quite odd lmao.

And, if your blood is 'clean' then it almost definitely has saved/prolonged somebody's life!
 
Ha, i remember your thread but i was up for doing it long before that, i was up for doing it before i was legal. My mate at work said he has done it 49 times, well today was his 49th thats why i went..

Im glad i dd it felt quite weird but really good!

I was in at around 3:20-3:25ish and i was out for 4.. Not bad :D
 
Easy peasy. Absolutely nothing to it and it helps those who most need it although I prefer to give platelets which prevents the wastage of pints of whole blood and is almost exclusively used for burn victims, pregnant women and premature babies. No wastage of my blood on alcoholics.
 
eddiemcgarrigle said:
Easy peasy. Absolutely nothing to it and it helps those who most need it although I prefer to give platelets which prevents the wastage of pints of whole blood and is almost exclusively used for burn victims, pregnant women and premature babies. No wastage of my blood on alcoholics.
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because you can't be an alcoholic pregnant woman?
 
Today i became an organ donor.

i > you.

(although i didnt actually donate any organs today... so i guess i dont)
 
I can't give blood here in Belgium since the form asks if you've lived in the UK during the 80s or 90s for more than 6 months. Apparently they haven't developed an (inexpensive) test for CJD yet. :o
 
Well done, as a frequent blood donor (17 times) I congratulate you in starting. Its much better than giving a quid to greepeace once a month :D. If you can donate platelets, then do it. It takes longer, but only 10% of blood donors can. I can and am starting in a couple of weeks.
 
lord filbuster said:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thrombocytes, Differing information on wikipedia, what a surprise.
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They are still different from RBC fragments, they come later and bid onto the platelets if i remember by a level biology rightly.

ahh i medical dictionary to the rescue

Thrombocyte: A platelet. Crucial to normal blood clotting. Although platelets are sometimes classed as blood cells, they are not. They are fragments of a large cell called a megakaryocyte (literally, a large cell).
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I thought

white blood cells = immune system
platelets = to help clotting


Hence platelets are not white blood cells.
 
I tried to give blood in HK before but they refused apparently I live in UK and they worried about BSE or CJD or something
 
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