Blood Donation

creamsoda

Just been to give blood(where i work lets me do it in works time so technically i get paid for giving blood!) anyway after the deed had been done( best time yet 6 mins 34 secs) i was escorted through to the waiting and passing out area. A nice nurse then offered tea,coffee or very weak orange juice and gratis biscuits but too my horror the quality of the biscuits had detriorated massively intead of vienna fingers, hob knobs or Jaffa cakes i was offered the choice of Crawford ginger nuts, custards or them round ones with the currents in don't know what they're called. i know the NHS is skint but they're getting my blood the least they could do was lay on a good spread! anyone else experienced this outrage?

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NO don't give blood, they use it to clone you then teah your clone to be evil and then they replace you with EVIL CLONEMAN

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Would love to give blood as I have no fear of needles (one of my jobs is to give people big fat IM injections and because I inject every day because I'm diabetic).

However, I cannot give blood when the donation vans turn up, incase I go hypo after a session. Shame really. Kudos to anyone that does do it though. Well deserved pat on the back!

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.....i know the NHS is skint....
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Well seeing as it was reported today the NHS has now broke even with a surplus of 500 million i reckon they could have rustled up some chocolate hob nobs!

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With that amount of money they should stretch to Fox's specials!!!

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Or even get waiting lists down! ;-)

I would give blood, but its green.

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Or even get waiting lists down! ;-)
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I would imagine biscuits is an easier proposition that unf*king up the NHS[:D]

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agreed that the biscuit quality is below par.

last time i gave blood, she missed the vein, so i gave a pint and leaked a pint into my arm. that was a fun wobble home! and to top it all, NICE biscuits were all i was offered for my trouble. NICE biscuits should be renamed RUBBISH biscuits.

and the tea was watery.

it took me AGES to replace all that blood too, i'm only ickle.

rikk

I would dearly love to give blood especialy as mine is a rare blood type but I am completly petrified of needles, it takes me a week to work up the bottle to go and have a blood test and even then it's touch and go as to wether I walk in the door or turn around



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Or even get waiting lists down! ;-)

I would give blood, but its green.

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Sonic, with all respect, given your list of possible ailments, you couldn't give it away!

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Very true! Most of it ends in the lab so the ycan tell me I have yet another disease that they missed.

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I agree the quality of biscuit has gone down and also if you help yourself to more than one they give you a dirty look

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Have loads of biscuits before you donate, then give the recipient a huge sugar rush!

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Did they not have TUC biscuits? NICE are reconstituted crumbs from the biscuit factory floor.

The blood service bring a mobile van to where I work, ends up being like a production line as there isn't any space in there so you get hurried along to bleed quickly and get back to work

carlos-g

Don't go to the mobile units! , my sister works for the vampires and I have been donating since I was 18(18 years), at the main donor building in Leeds they have a coffee machine on free vend with a choice of about 7 different drinks and (drum roll) [:p]CAKE[:p] I usually manage at least 3 peices the choc chip one is verr nice , they also have crisps and biscuits.

If it weren't for blood tranfusions then my grandad would've died when my mum was 17 and my half brother when he was 2,so I think that it's a fantastic and selfless thing that more people could do , !!!!!!remember you might need it yourself one day!!!!!!!

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I'm not allowed to give blood[:(]. I tried and was told to go away; they'd call me if they reclassify things. I was still offered a biscuit though as I had to wait around as I had shared a lift with some real blood doners

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I have never given blood but going to start....and going pre-armed with some Jaffa Cakes[:D]

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You should come down to Devon to give blood .. we get Luvvly Biccys (and cake)

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Sidey

I go to the main blood donor unit in Manchester, there to it has a coffee machine on free vend, good bisquits and ham or tuna butties in the fridge.

creamsoda

Everyone should give blood and if they refuse then just tell them you'll go home do it yourself and post them the blood! See how quick they get you on the table then. I think if i'd have been offered NICE biscuits after giving blood i would have asked for a refund. Next time i might take a load of posh biccies and see if i can sell them to donators who want an upgrade, in fact get a mobile Costa Coffee van that just follows the blood people round. I'm going be rich and be able to buy my own Jaffa Cakes. Dream bike here i come.

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Do you have to have a blood test before you can donate
or do they just take it anyway and test it later

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They take a small sample from your finger before you donate, you only feel a small prick, then if that's ok then the extract the pint. If they struggle to get the full pint they stop it early and send you on your way. The only time it really hurts is when you discover the biscuits are sub-standard.

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all on the same day then?

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Yeh.You fill in a questionaire, give the sample then give the blood usually takes about 30-45 mins in all but depending if theres a queue. Some people bruise where they insert the needle but that's about it.

carlos-g

The little prick they give you on your finger is to test the iron level in your blood,the donation itself is about 500ml so slightly less than a pint and they usually take a couple of small samples into test tubes at the end of your donation for testing, the alternative is you could maybe give platelets(what helps blood to clot) , they hook you up to a machine that spins the blood and seperates the platelets from the red cells and gives the red cells back to you via an in/out cycle , this usually takes around 75 mins but you do get a nice helper to bring you drinks whilst you're hooked up.

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I wasn't allowed to give blood because I was borderline anaemic, they told me to go back when I'd upped my iron levels, sadly they're always low so I can't donate.

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