Just gave blood again, do you?

tom_e said:
Seems strange that they've only recently launched a relatively big campaign to attract more donors. With their missing type adverts.
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the average age of donation is increasing, so they want more younger donors, they also need more of certain blood groups and they need more platelet donators.
but its strict for a reason, it didn't use to be and look at the HIV issues they had. it makes perfect sense to screen. especially on hard to detect, or can be dormant for a while.
 
Spooky, just reading this and this popped up in my email -

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Third time yesterday. I was supposed to go in July but ended up in Germany so I rescheduled for August but again, I had a last minute trip to Germany so I wasn't available.
 
My bruise is just starting to fade from last week, and I'm sure I only just got the last of the extra sticky adhesive off my arm in the shower this morning.

You could do building repairs with those plasters!
 
tom_e said:
My bruise is just starting to fade from last week, and I'm sure I only just got the last of the extra sticky adhesive off my arm in the shower this morning.

You could do building repairs with those plasters!
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Haha I remember those super sticky plasters so I know what you mean!
 
Got my 8th in about an hour. Taking the Mrs for the first time too. She is nervous about it, despite having given birth to 3 kids...

She's A- so well worth donating.
 
Just got the nice text telling my my life fluid has been issued to St. Georges Hospital, London. How exciting :)
 
Because i'm a crybaby and I hate needles and people.

I know that's not a valid reason.

[Edit] What makes it even worse is that i'm O negative.
 
Siliconslave said:
going in friday - strongly considering registering to be a bone marrow donor as well...
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I've got a question about this. I signed up a few years ago at a blood donation for bone marrow donation list. A few friends at work have done the mouth swab to sign up for marrow donation. Do all the different ways of signing up work together somehow or should I do the mouth swab too. I would want to help someone if I can but I'm unsure if a needed patient would be matched to just some lists and not others
 
To do it at least once would be a good thing to mark off the list I feel like because anyone can end up requiring blood and I guess anyone can also fall ill and require bone marrow (not sure of all the cases its used) .
Its too late to do anything when you do fall ill, all you can do is hold out your hand and ask others that are able
Meridian said:
Amateurs...

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(It's up to 467 donations now)



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My dad has a photo with the Falklands veteran Simon Weston because he gave so many pints of blood as he has the universal donor type I think and went regular over decades. He clocked up a certificate like that, 476 donations sounds so high and Im wondering how thats even possible for one person to do you must be very bloody wow :D
My dad had to stop when he started taking medication, they are really strict on every factor. Im not allowed to give any, I guess I'd be allowed if it was literally a battlefield type scenario but I have like 95% 90% oxygen levels depending on an over active spleen I think chucking away good blood cells, also gives me very high resistance to malaria apparently and I cant climb mount Everest and stuff :o They dont want any complications in surgery with less oxygenated blood, not sure about bone marrow maybe I could do that sometime
 
silversurfer said:
My dad has a photo with the Falklands veteran Simon Weston because he gave so many pints of blood as he has the universal donor type I think and went regular over decades. He clocked up a certificate like that, 476 donations sounds so high and Im wondering how thats even possible for one person to do you must be very bloody wow :D
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Somebody explained it to me up above somewhere.
Apparently you can give platelets more often and each time it counts as 4 donations (or something).
I've been donating twice a year since 1976 and then over the last 10 years, 4 times a week so I wondered how they got those figures.
 
FluffySheep said:
Do all the different ways of signing up work together somehow or should I do the mouth swab too. I would want to help someone if I can but I'm unsure if a needed patient would be matched to just some lists and not others
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As far as i can tell there's anthony noland and the NHS lists, it sounds like they both work together to give each other access, after all the point of both is to treat people.

itchy said:
Are you a crazy! :eek:

That has to be one of the most painful donation procedures, 2 days in hospital and 5 day at home recovery! No thank you. :mad:
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That's one method, there's actually a new way where they just harvest stem cells in 9/10 cases. You go in for three injections on consecutive days to boost your production. Then on the 4th day you go in for a few hours and have your blood pumped through a collection machine to harvest the cells - almost totally painless :)

Anyhows it's a very low chance you'll get called up, but if you do you're almost guaranteed to be saving someone's life - blood cancer is damn horrible, and being able to save someone from that is more than worth a few days discomfort.
 
I gave blood once but I almost passed out and was sent home from work :p (It was a donor bus parked outside)

They advised me not to give it another go but I would like to. They didn't really explain if it was a one off reaction or my body just can't cope with a pint less.
 
mid_gen said:
Can't give blood if you're living abroad, nobody wants our dirty British blood.

True story.
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With British holiday culture being the equivalent of a more organised and compressed form of British binge culture, i think they will sooner bottle it or dry it into powder and sell it on the black market!
 
Avenged7Fold said:
With British holiday culture being the equivalent of a more organised and compressed form of British binge culture, i think they will sooner bottle it or dry it into powder and sell it on the black market!
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That's quite possible ;)

But it's actually because of the MAD COWS. If you lived in the UK for more than 5 years cumulatively between 1980 and 1996, then pretty much nowhere in the world will accept your blood.
 
R-evans said:
I gave blood once but I almost passed out and was sent home from work :p (It was a donor bus parked outside)
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The donor buses are notorious for this, especially in hot weather. The combination of stale air, too warm, and the slight rocking caused by movement (the vehicles are sometimes jacked off the ground, but still move a little) tend to produce a lot of slightly ill people, and that ups the chances of fainting. I would certainly try again, but at a fixed donor centre.
 
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