Soldato
They used to hire a room in the local sports centre so most likely a cost cutting exercise then.
Yep it's the race to the bottom same with everyone else.
Just gave blood again, do you?
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Soldato
Depends were you live and what the transport is like. Public transport is dire anywhere that isn't a city centre you know.
Commissario
They've been very forceful, I've been phoned a few times since my last donation, trying to book one for me but there haven't been any suitable slots. They keep trying to get me to go to Felixstowe because 'it's less than ten miles away from you, sir". Yes, it's only ten miles as the crow flies but it takes well over an hour to drive there.
My last couple of sessions, I've driven half an hour to donate.
There are so many people and so few sessions locally that it's a real struggle to get an appointment. I miss the time where, after you donated, you could book your next session with them manually before you left the centre.
However, they've finally been able to set up at a place they used to use many years ago and it's less than three miles from me so I'm booked in for Friday after work.
My last couple of sessions, I've driven half an hour to donate.
There are so many people and so few sessions locally that it's a real struggle to get an appointment. I miss the time where, after you donated, you could book your next session with them manually before you left the centre.
However, they've finally been able to set up at a place they used to use many years ago and it's less than three miles from me so I'm booked in for Friday after work.
Man of Honour
Just bringing this thread back to life to say that today was my 900th donation. For people new to the thread, that's thirty years of platelets, plus plasma and some whole blood.
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Soldato
My mate went to give blood but they called the police on him...
He went there with his mother in law with a knife to her throat!
He went there with his mother in law with a knife to her throat!
Caporegime
Don't donate blood but registered as a marrow donor. Hope I'm never needed as it truly means someone's life has taken an awful turn.
Never in my life, I had awful experiences in the past when Dr`s had to take blood samples as a child.
They just could not get a vain properly and made multiple failed attempts leaving my arms covered in bruises and in pain.
So i have had a life long phobia of it and cringe thinking about it.
My mother gave blood her entire life though, she had a rare blood type they were in desperate need of so she would go every year.
They just could not get a vain properly and made multiple failed attempts leaving my arms covered in bruises and in pain.
So i have had a life long phobia of it and cringe thinking about it.
My mother gave blood her entire life though, she had a rare blood type they were in desperate need of so she would go every year.
Soldato
I used to give blood, but like Feek's experience above, they stopped the ability to make a future appointment while you were there, and on top of that, stopped using the local church for the blood letting.
Shame.
Shame.
Man of Honour
On the other end of the scale I was nearly over the threshold the last time I donated...too much meat being eaten obviously
I'm currently at 15 booked in for my 16th in Jan.
Associate
I'm currently on 54 donations and have the 55th booked for this Friday.
Soldato
I've posted before about my experience with the horrors of the Contaminated Blood Scandal - but I've always admired those who do donate; once, a few times, or like @Meridian, hundreds of units over the course of decades.
I'm glad the clotting treatment I need is now available in recombinant form (synthetic, not human plasma-derived), meaning "minimal risk" of receiving a blood-borne virus is now "zero risk".
Too late for me (I was intentionally infected with Hep-C in 1982, at 10 months old), but my two children who inherited my Von Willebrand's Disease will never again have to play Russian Roulette when seeking treatment for a bleeding episode...
I'm glad the clotting treatment I need is now available in recombinant form (synthetic, not human plasma-derived), meaning "minimal risk" of receiving a blood-borne virus is now "zero risk".
Too late for me (I was intentionally infected with Hep-C in 1982, at 10 months old), but my two children who inherited my Von Willebrand's Disease will never again have to play Russian Roulette when seeking treatment for a bleeding episode...
Soldato
Yup, given blood every since 1st year at uni in 1986! Getting closer to 100 donations.
It really doesn't hurt and I would encourage everybody to do it.
It really doesn't hurt and I would encourage everybody to do it.
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Well I was going to donate today, but as I was walking out of the door to attend they cancelled my appointment due to "unforeseen circumstances". Gordon Freeman is not amused.
I get it that it happens, but I've had 3 texts telling me how important my donation is. And an email. A text this morning telling me to eat and drink plenty (thanks, I eat like a lord on donation days so no reminder needed for that treat) and another telling me how rare B- donors are. Plus i'm a Neo donor too.
L'sigh, better get the next one booked.
I get it that it happens, but I've had 3 texts telling me how important my donation is. And an email. A text this morning telling me to eat and drink plenty (thanks, I eat like a lord on donation days so no reminder needed for that treat) and another telling me how rare B- donors are. Plus i'm a Neo donor too.
L'sigh, better get the next one booked.