Nurse Ratched
9:54 Wed Aug 19
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WHOic - injections and having a small blood sample taken don't adversely affect me, but donating blood (nearly a pint, apparently) makes me go wobbly for a minute or so. Naturally, i don't actually faint because I am a WARRIOR, but the world goes a bit black at the edges and dizzifying and I have to chug water before getting up again. I was told it's because I have low blood pressure.
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MrCrowmanSir
9:50 Wed Aug 19
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I'm the exact same whoicidal, don't mind injections but the idea of a needle in my vein taking blood make me go all queer.
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WHOicidal Maniac
9:48 Wed Aug 19
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I dont mind needles and injections and Im not squeamish but having blood taken makes me pass out. The Doc says its all in my mind and that there is no reason that it should happen...I think hes a fucking liar.
..Any one else get this?
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Nurse Ratched
9:47 Wed Aug 19
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To suggest Zod has blood is to introduce the notion it could be spilled.
Brave of you.
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MrCrowmanSir
9:40 Wed Aug 19
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I'm not a donor, but I share the same rare blood group as General Zod, so my blood is priceless and can't be given away willy nilly.
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Fivetide
9:38 Wed Aug 19
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These situations rarely result in happy anecdotes. I'm sorry to hear it. Yes, a passenger flight would have been cheaper in our case too I guess, but not as quickly expedited.
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Nurse Ratched
9:28 Wed Aug 19
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Fivey, even if I could have found a medical courier, it would have worked out much cheaper to just fly out there, which is what I did instead. All came to nought. I wasn't a match for her, unfortunately.
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Fivetide
9:09 Wed Aug 19
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Nurse - only mentioned the courier as I sent a pint to Belgium once (long story). The container had to be rented and was ridiculosly expensive and tied a delivery service. All then had to be picked up and sent with a bike courier service. It was stressful, certainly, and pricey. Needs must :(
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JACK1
9:04 Wed Aug 19
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I donate as well :-)
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Stickleback
8:56 Wed Aug 19
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I started donating after my Dad died of a blood cancer. I figured we owed them a few pints after his treatments.
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bruuuno
8:43 Wed Aug 19
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Plenty of bullshit donors too
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SecondOpinion
8:32 Wed Aug 19
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Plenty of sperm donors on here
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bruuuno
7:38 Wed Aug 19
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Nurse Ratched 4:30 Wed Aug 19
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Can I have some of your blood, bruu?
Blood, no..
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mashed in maryland
7:16 Wed Aug 19
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Yes I am.
Honestly think that it should be an opt-out system where unless you genuinely medically can't do it, then you should have to pay for any nhs treatment involving blood transfusions.
Same with organ donations.
No one has ever (EVER) provided a half decent counter argument to this proposal which doesn't involve human rights or religion or some other load of leftie bollocks.
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Eastside surge
5:36 Wed Aug 19
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Coming up to my 40th donation next year and I never look at the needle either , always book your appointment in advance as it does speed things along .
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Troy McClure
5:35 Wed Aug 19
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Most of us Anglo Saxons are O Neg. it's a common miss conception that rare blood types are needed more in fact it's opposite. That's what the Doris told me down there last time anyway
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Troy McClure
5:33 Wed Aug 19
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It's usually just off a pint you donate and yeah I'm only ever in there around half an hour.
My old man is in his 80s now so isn't allowed to any more which is a shame cos he's fit as a fiddle still. Dagenham boy - Tough In the arm thick in the head
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Blunders
5:23 Wed Aug 19
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Steve the Hammer 4:36 Wed Aug 19
Usually takes about 45 minutes tops - from arriving, going through the form, having it done, recovery and free drink/biscuits/crisps after.
I've done it 7 times and I've never once seen the needle. Just don't look!
Don't hurt at all.
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Blunders
5:20 Wed Aug 19
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Yup, I'm positive I do.......
Actually, I'm A negative.
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Zammo
5:00 Wed Aug 19
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I was told in 1997 that I was given the blood of someone who passed from new variant CJD
Mooooooooooooooooooooo
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Nurse Ratched
4:58 Wed Aug 19
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...which is fair enough, when you consider the hundreds of thousands of Britons who have contracted and/or died of CJD.
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