Poll: Giving blood

[Zykon TheLich]

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[Fruhstuck]

I can't
It sucks
However, I have never otherwise known pain like them botching taking my blood for tests
Stupid Nurse Pulled my vein out of my arm!
They put it back like but it was still Despotically Painful
And really quite surreal
I passed out after they'd put it back in, which was weird

They pulled it out? As in, you saw your vein outside your body? Messed up. How'd that happen?

Indeed, about 8-9 inches of my own vein came out of my right arm lol
I don't recommend the experience
I was told afterwards that she had stubbed the needle beforehand, curving the end back on itself
-_-_-_-_/ << like that kind of, if you can see what i was trying to do there
Which is no problem going in lol it just makes a bit of a bigger hole
But on the way out it hooks into the wall of the vein and rips it out
Apparently a surprising number of people do it when self medicating (or when smacking up)

 

[Programmed_For_Damage]

Given I have the second rarest blood type (B-) that less than 8% of the world's population have I give blood because I might be up shit creek if I ever need a transfusion. Could be worse, my mum is AB- which apparently is the rarest blood type.

 

[Smiles]

I do all the time! I love giving blood, I love that first pinch of the needle into your skin and watching the blood flowing down the tube into the bag... I keep trying to convince them to take more from me but they won't take more than a pint, so I have to drag my family members along.

Sadly I won't be able to give blood for 6 months after thursday, when I'm getting my tattoo

Also I am O- so I can give everybody blood! and that also means they call me all the time asking for me to donate, which is kinda annoying...

 

[Programmed_For_Damage]

I do all the time! I love giving blood, I love that first pinch of the needle into your skin and watching the blood flowing down the tube into the bag... I keep trying to convince them to take more from me but they won't take more than a pint, so I have to drag my family members along.

Sadly I won't be able to give blood for 6 months after thursday, when I'm getting my tattoo

Also I am O- so I can give everybody blood! and that also means they call me all the time asking for me to donate, which is kinda annoying...

Six months? I live in Australia and they told me I couldn't give blood for at least 12 months after getting a tattoo. Maybe the just didn't want my blood.

 

[vxicepickxv]

I'm glad I gave blood.

Through some twist of fate, I would like to remind people that you will probably not reject your own blood should it get put back into you at a later date.

 

[Jark212]

I give blood as often as it is healthy, and as long as I get my free refrishments.

O+ blood type so they love me at the clinic... (I feel loved...)

 

[MorsePacific]

I give blood at my school at least once a year. Then I pass out and get to sit in the nurse's office for an hour or so.

 

[BGinsanity]

yea ive given blood, its quick and easy so long as you get a nurse without fucking down syndrome

By the way thats not a joke, ive had a half "special" nurse take my blood before, it was....well.......painful

 

[hellthins]

I would, but I seem to have some manner of induced anemia related to my weight. Or lack there of, rather. If that ever changes though, and I hope it will, I'll definitely start giving blood.

 

[Mnemophage]

I take thyroid meds, so they don't want me. Which kind of sucks, as I've apparently got the universal blood type that hospitals are constantly short of. No free cookies for me.

 

[Reaperman Wompa]

Not allowed to yet, but I will when I can.

 

[Ultrajoe]

I know i probably should, apparently my blood is good blood (Ultrablood?). But these are the one needles i cannot stand. I'll take any shot with gusto, shoot me up bro...

...But the idea of willingly having something siphoned out of me up a tube? I know it shouldn't irk me, but it should. So i don't.

I did volunteer to give all my organs if i die, however, so i'm calling that an even score.

 

[insectoid]

No I haven't. Way to scared of needles.

 

[stompy]

I wouldn't mind giving blood when I'm old enough.

 

[WeedWorm]

In Ireland, they used to give you a pint of Guiness after you gave blood. Form medical reasons of course. Anyway, I havent given blood yet and probably wont for a good long while.

 

[mkb07a]

I've only given once, my senior year of high school, and it went really well- I was in and out in less than ten minutes, my veins are really easy to see due to IVs as a child, and I'm O+, which means everyone loves me and my universally acceptable blood type. I'd do it again, but I haven't had the chance to (and no, we don't get paid for our delicious American blood).

Has anyone donated plasma? I almost did but it was super sketchy at the place and filled with... sketchy people. I lucked out because I didn't have proof that I lived in Texas on me, but even then, it was way too creepy being there. The money didn't seem worth it.

 

[Mariena]

I don't even know my bloodtype >.>

I felt a bit lightheaded after they took a few samples for an allergy test, so I can't even imagine what it would be like if I got rid of an entire pint of blood.

 

[Eagle Est1986]

I was giving bloody pretty regularly but then they moved the place that did it and it's become very inconvient for me to do so, I should really do it again though, there's a free biscuit at the end!

 

[Shadowtek]

i challenged my friend to a race.

This is exactly what i did the first time i gave blood. Americans get paid for giving blood??? oh man, Ive been getting cheated anyway, great job giving blood, more people need to, more often.

In Ireland, they used to give you a pint of Guiness after you gave blood. Form medical reasons of course.

gotta love that Irish medicine... I need to live there, (the land of my ancestors)