Giving Blood

Originally Posted by sarah

Don't they have their own separate blood service like Wales does?

You're allowed to sacrifice factual accuracy for comic effect. Its the law........

Originally Posted by ASM-Forever

I don't particularly like needles either. I just look away and focus on other stuff. If i pretend its not hapening it isn't.

La la la la.....

That's what i try and do! Just staring out the window. Next thing I know I'm on the floor with a cut on my forehead and about 10 nurses (hello!) round me.

Originally Posted by lukemillar

10 nurses (hello!) round me.

A clever ploy, if ever i heard of one.

10 though...thats just greedy! Personally i think their is a saturation point around 7 nurses.

Originally Posted by ASM-Forever

10 though...thats just greedy! Personally i think their is a saturation point around 7 nurses.

Hey, I didn't get a choice!

"If you pass out, they will come..."

Originally Posted by lukemillar

Hey, I didn't get a choice!

"If you pass out, they will come..."

Knowing my luck they would all be old and ugly. Maybe only a good idea in Oz.

[northwind]

I'm not allowed... TBH I can't help but think that some of the disqualification criteria are a bit daft, if we really are as drastically short on blood as we're told why are we disqualifying people who've received recent transfusions for instance? I can understand the concern over older blood stocks, but mine was just 2 years ago and so would have been donated under current rules- so there's no more chance of my own blood being a CJD risk than there is with the blood currently in stock. But under current rules, they'll never take my blood again.

Some of the sexual disqualifications seem OTT as well, frinstance if you're a man who's ever had oral sex with another man, even with a condom, you're considered an unacceptable risk... Even if it was a decade ago and you've been screened for HIV since. But not just that, if you're a woman who's ever had sex with a man who's ever had oral sex with another man (even with a condom, even after testing) then you're also considered a risk, so great is the risk of catching homosexuality.

Out of interest, what the hell are blood products? Sounds like some sort of franchise scheme.

[northwind]

Originally Posted by chakraist

Out of interest, what the hell are blood products?

An emo band

[tigersaw]

I gave gallons in the past, but then they told me there wasn't enough iron or lead or whatever in it, and not to come back

Originally Posted by northwind

An emo band

haha, made me chuckle. 'hi we're the blood products and we cry ourselves to sleep.'