Blood Donations, your views and a plea
- Thread starter Cahlee
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Everybody knows they just take the blood and give it to the secret underground vampire network to try and curb the amount of people they take each month for food. Sheesh.
On a serious note, I really wouldn't have a problem with it, and I'm most likely going to go along with my mum the next time she goes to give blood.
On a serious note, I really wouldn't have a problem with it, and I'm most likely going to go along with my mum the next time she goes to give blood.
You know, I should probably start donating blood - not out of charity, mind you, no, because frankly I couldn't care less about who's getting my blood, but rather for the money. Depending on how much I get for a donation, that could be a new computer game each month!
I have a solid alcoholic concentration in my blood 24-7 so I can't give blood any more.
I once lost 6 units of blood (total not all at once!) and managed to take 8 back in, so I've made sure to give back twice what I figure I owed (that would be 16 units people).
For those at a school or place of employment, you can usually convince them to send you along on a schedule (which means you get out of school/work for a while) - so long as they get some sort of "My $Place donates blood".
I once lost 6 units of blood (total not all at once!) and managed to take 8 back in, so I've made sure to give back twice what I figure I owed (that would be 16 units people).
For those at a school or place of employment, you can usually convince them to send you along on a schedule (which means you get out of school/work for a while) - so long as they get some sort of "My $Place donates blood".
I pass a donation centre on my way to uni, but every person I know who has given blood has had some kind of minor problem with it. Can't find/missing a vein, having to actually hold a syringe with their blood in it etc..
I want to do it, but I don't need all that going on. I would like to be conscious for my labs
I want to do it, but I don't need all that going on. I would like to be conscious for my labs
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As soon as I am old enough I will start donating blood, they actually have a day at my school where the students above 16 can give blood in the morning and then go home.
another trypanophobe here. i actually don't mind vaccination shots (which are typically in the shoulder - painful, but extremely quick; just have to hype myself with science first), but you better keep those gorram needles away from my veins!
giving blood is a good thing to do (but needles! we hates them!), but i think it's pushed too hard (at least here on American college campuses - may be different elsewhere). i really don't need people begging me to let them stick me on my way to class >_>
but you "normal" folks can keep on giving blood if you want; no real moral objections here, just needle squick.
giving blood is a good thing to do (but needles! we hates them!), but i think it's pushed too hard (at least here on American college campuses - may be different elsewhere). i really don't need people begging me to let them stick me on my way to class >_>
but you "normal" folks can keep on giving blood if you want; no real moral objections here, just needle squick.
Being 15, I'm not legally aloud to give blood, and if I am I can't anyway because I'm constantly ill, but I know roughly how they do it. But how do you give plasma...Cahlee said:
Simple enough, they give you a from to fill out, the interview you and prick your finger to check your heamoglobin levels (that is the worst bit imo). Then you sit in a comfy chair, they put the needle in, only hurts for a sec, and you sit there for about 10 minutes. After which you get a free milkshake and jelly beans and things!Ultrajoe said:
Although, I'm not sure how you're average civilian would go getting UltraBlood...
You're a .au aren't you?Ultrajoe said:
You show up, you fill in a form (questionnaire really), they take a quick needle-stab to the tip of our finger (it's like being flicked - it hurts more in your head than when it happens) to test your blood counts or some such, then you go sit on a chair for 10 or 15 while the blood is drained from you. Afterwards they give you a freeby milk (at least back in the Riverina they did so) and a biscuit to try and set you up properly before you leave.
And that's it. They might ask for ID. After a few goes you get free stuff like a keychain or what not.
It's simple, and so long as you don't swear (nurses tend to be very proper women when on the job!) you don't usually get hurt.