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anyone else give blood?
www.blood.co.uk
I did, but an opperation and a nigerian girlfriend meant I was too much of a liability for a while and never got arround to finding out where the nearest place is after I moved.
n.b. If you give blood, you may as well sign up for bone marrow as well, the test is fairly painless (just a normal blood test) and you can always back down at the last minute if you dont want to op after they've matched you (although I guess youd feel a bit of a c***).
Blood and bone marrow here, oh so smug.
Painless and they make you feel good..
I believe the Bone marrow can be harvested without the op now.
platelets and bone marrow here
Would like to and have offered before but apparently I was born in the wrong place a year too early. Asked for clarification by the web site a couple of years ago and never got a reply and haven't really had the opportunity since. Maybe time to go back and try again....
Gave my 50th a few months back 😀
Sperm here. Multiple recipients. Win win. 🙂
Can't lack of Iron. Mrs does on a regualar basis.
I have a Mate who's gay and they won't let him. Really winds him up.
i am 17 and last week gave my 3rd pint 🙂
whilst waiting for it to all happen it is completley worth it and the finger prick and actually donation take very little time
The online form doesn't like the fact I (1) had a significant operation 5 years ago (no transfusion, though) and (2) caught malaria nearly 15 years ago (took so much Larium in Austrlia that it's never - knowingly - returned).
Oh, and as for bone marrow donation, I tried signing up to the Anthiny Nolan trust, but was turned away because I have right bundle branch block.
I think I need to speak to somone about this, as I'm keen to help out.
Yip I try and give as much as I can, crap myself everytime I go but is never as bad as I think it will be. But its a great feeling knowing you've done some good
1 trip to Africa and 1 trip to India last year means I haven't yet this year, although they really should be in touch soon. I did drag a non-swimmer having a panic attack out of a pool in Kenya though so at least got some 'life saving' in!
irresponsible behaviour in my youth makes me too high risk
Thank you for reminding me hoops, im a lapsed Donor due to work in the past, but have changed my job 3 months ago and have just found out the next session in my area.
Started giving blood years ago after an road accident when I received some, gave regularly for 10+ years but then they said because I have had a transfusion they do not want my blood anymore. Wasn't very far away from my Gold Card!
Wont let me ....jobs high risk to em ....missus does though
Massive thanks to everyone who gives blood. I needed a transfusion four years ago during major surgery, so I guess I probably wouldn't be here now if not for you lot. They won't let me give now 🙁
Done it once and keep meaning to go back and do it again - just haven't bothered with uni and other stuff getting in the way. When I get a stable schedule I'll get on it - costs nothing and can save lives! I don't get people who won't do it.
Can't because I used to live in the UK! Go figure.
Not allowed
I've thought about it but never got round to it. I'm on the organ donor list though.
I'm lapsed. Travelled to an at risk area a few years back and wasn't allowed for a while, but I'm sure I'd be OK now. Right, that's a task for tonight, find a session to go to.
I think I recall you can even book a slot online now. That was always a pisser (but it's relative I suppose) that some sessions you'd queue for an hour or more to do your duty.
Blood and bone marrow here. Friend's wife had leukemia last year, which prompted the bone marrow bit.
Couldn't give for a while as I lived in Africa in my youth. They developed a test for malaria and all good now.
My kids like the "My Dad Gave Blood Today" stickers.
Paul
Used to donate when I was in the UK. Now that I am in the Netherlands I can't as a Britisher in case I give someone mad cow's disease. Still I think one of the natives would be better off with a pint of finest Yorkshire Red.
Mooooooooooooooooqwack
nope had hepatitus a a few years ago and now have a genetic muscle wasting disease.
Does it not concern you that your blood might save some right nasty piece of work who gets beaten nearly to death in jail due to his or her evil crimes?
Since I was 16, with a bit of a gap due to work, travel etc.
Going tmw as it happens 😆
Thanks to everyone who gave blood as a few years ago had a minor surgical issue, they found out i was severely anaemic,so had to give me 4 units overnight,(thats 4 pints) got woken up every 5 minutes and got blood pressure checked ,had op the next day and woke up next morning with the bed soaked in blood, came as a bit of a shock to the chaps in the next bed when i got up to go to the toilet,and me,my pygamas and bed where soaked in blood.
If I'd have known you were going to waste it... 😉
Had 2 months off work unpaid to think about it.
[i]just saved yet another life[/i]
Bet you haven't saved as many as my mate Merv.
Who's a paramedic.
I started again recently after first giving when I was at Uni nearly 20 years ago.
Surprised no one's mentioned the best bit about giving blood.
That warm feeling inside that can only come from free cake!
can't at the moment, preggo, will be back again as soon as I can - a year away yet though
This thread disgusts me.
Surely we're all completely missing the point of giving blood..
they dont want mine, i bet theyd ****ing take it if they were bleeding to death in a gutter after being hit by a lorry tho,
FREE BISCUITS!!!!!!!!! 😀
(done it a couple of times .. waaaay too slack...might stop by and leak out a bit for them tomorrow now you mention it)
Sperm here. Multiple recipients.
Ahhh the care-free bachelor days at uni...
I'm another not allowed, I've had cancer twice so will never be allowed much to my distress
Another sperm donor here - got made redundant as had hit the limit for conceptions - used to give blood in same hospital purely for medical research. Gave blood a couple of years ago in Cambodia (requests for blood donors due to an outbreak of dengue fever), but never in the UK for normal transfusion uses. On the Anthony Nolan bone marrow database as well.
New Zealand Blood Service won't accept donations from anyone who lived in the UK during the 90's (CJD)
I got up to number 35 and then was not allowed to anymore as they changed the rules about whole blood products (I had a couple of big ops 20 odd years ago)......****in' annoying that I'm not allowed to anymore 👿
I'm not allowed, I pass out whenever anyone gets a needle near me. Wish I could get over it, I keep trying!
Can't give blood for about 4 or 5 reasons on their list.
Bet you haven't saved as many as my mate Merv.Who's a paramedic.
🙄
I kept trying but could never book as my local collection was always over susbscribed, kind of given up now.
Only started in the last couple of years, but always make a point now since my sister had major surgery. I would always recommend making an appointment rather than just turning up. The last few sessions I've been to have been hugely oversubscribed, with lots of people who turned up without an appointment being turned away.
The nurses were complaining that the new blood service mangement were useless, and not giving them enough staff to cope with demand.
Need to put myself on Organ Donation register as well, and they want me to give platelets. As long as I've got blood to spare, you can 'ave it 🙂
I've done it quite a few times, when the mobile unit used to come to our workplace. But they've stopped that and the appointments they send are always on a day when I commute, so I'm reluctant to give a pint away when I need the energy to ride home.
Is that a poor excuse?
Do they still run the mobile units anywhere?
i started donating blood a couple of years ago. recently started donating platelets. going again tomorrow for platelets. the thought is always worse than the experience!
I go to the afternoon sess's and turn up the second they open. Never had to wait more than 20mins and yesterdays biccy assortment was top notch. Minipack of bourbons, mint club and another mint club washed down with some Twinnings Earl Grey! not bad for Stockport.
Local session is a week or two off, I'll go and I'm pretty sure, be told 'thanks but no' happens every summer donation when I'm on anti-histamines - i'd rather 'waste' 2 mins of their time finding out than just simply not turn up....
Gotta love the humour of the nurses, couple of sessions back, lady a couple of beds before I went in was struggling to part with blood whereas it does seem to fall out of me - lady enquires how come I'm 'in and out so quick' (stop giggling at the back) - I pipes up that it must be because i'm fit and healthy and have a strong heart.. (as those here who know me could testify, 'healthy and fit' are a bit of a stretch.. so this was said with a smile and very tongue in cheek!) - nurse pipes up, with a wry smile - 'That's as may be MrMM but, in a accident, you'd bleed to death before this lady does!!'... I laughed all the way to the juice and biscuits 😀
Last time i went i felt weak on the bike for a good month or so afterwards, so i'm waiting til the end of the season before i go again. Not 100% sure they were related, but i don't want to risk it.
Would love to but not allowed to 🙁