Just gave blood again, do you?

spile · Thursday at 06:59

I stopped when they got rid of local centres that were conveniently located.

Beans on toast Dave · Thursday at 07:02

last time i looked at giving blood, you have to book an appointment weeks in advance, thats not going to work for me

tom_e · Thursday at 07:24

Beans on toast Dave said:
last time i looked at giving blood, you have to book an appointment weeks in advance, thats not going to work for me

It's getting much better around here, they seem to be running much more regular sessions in dawley so you might find something closer to the time rather than needing to book months out

Beans on toast Dave · Thursday at 07:25

tom_e said:
It's getting much better around here, they seem to be running much more regular sessions in dawley so you might find something closer to the time rather than needing to book months out

thanks, will have a look again later

D.P. · Thursday at 08:59

Having grown up in the UK i am not allowed to give blood anywhere because i definitely have mad cow disease

Kelt · Thursday at 09:29

spile said:
I stopped when they got rid of local centres that were conveniently located.

Same here.

They also stopped taking appointments while you were there, double whammy.

mattyg · Thursday at 09:35

The mrs is on the rare blood type. She was taken off the allowed to give blood list as ONCE they struggled to get a vein. She used to give blood whenever she could.

I've an autoimmune disease so can't.

Karl · Thursday at 12:04

I went to give blood a couple of weeks ago, and I was too low on iron, about 126, when they wanted something like 135. I was told not to come back for 12 months

TwsT · Thursday at 12:34

In the queue right now, they are running late hopefully the boss doesn't mind too much

Feek · Thursday at 17:55

Beans on toast Dave said:
last time i looked at giving blood, you have to book an appointment weeks in advance, thats not going to work for me

This really confuses me. I'm not being awkward, but why is this a problem? I see it all the time. This is not just a dig at you

If you have a calendar, or a diary, if something has to be booked weeks in advance, you look in your diary/calendar/whatever and see if the time and date is free.

If it is, then you put that event in there. It's booked, your time is reserved for it.

Then if someone else asks you to do something at that time and date, you can look in your calendar/diary/whatever and see that you're already booked for that time.

This literally happens so often.

"Hey guys, fancy a curry? How about three weeks next Friday?"

"lol, I don't know what I'm doing tomorrow, never mind in three weeks time."

So you try the alternative....

"Hey guys, fancy a curry on Friday?

"lol, I've got something else arranged"

AAAARRRRRGGGGGGHHHHHHHH!

/end rant.

BUDFORCE · Thursday at 20:32

Nah I got banned.

I gave blood a few times no problem, but I went on a Sunday morning I was hungover and hadn't eaten anything.

Nearly passed out on the thing and they banned me.

I got a really rare (B-) blood as well. Oh well.

ots3go · Thursday at 20:43

Not allowed as there's a possibility that I might be a mad cow.

British Blood Donation Ban in the Netherlands - Turning Dutch

Brits may have discovered that they are not permitted to donate blood here. There is a British blood donation ban in the Netherlands.

turningdutch.com

Which makes me sad as I'm happy to do it and have done it in the UK.