wiccanpony
Official Freak Bar Witch
NSA is my "Hero"
thanks to my sister,the bank doesn't want my blood
thanks to my sister,the bank doesn't want my blood
Blood of the gods
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Yep Blood Doners don't get enough priase.
I was a doner once upon a time, Silver Badge somewhere for 25 units.
Fran of course had to be better and got her Golden Badge for 50 units. :claply:
Both of us ruled out now, Fran due to Cancer, Chemo and current medication ; Me, I ended up getting 6 units back after a Gastric Heamorrage.
Sand Rat
New member
O + here - funny story though - was going through Baghdad one time and had it on my flack jacket on a piece of tape - this girl was staring at the tape and I said "You've never seen someone with tape on their flack?" She said she'd never seen someone with their blood type on their flack - I said "Hell, I got it on my helmet, my flack and my boots just to be sure" at which point she looked at me like I had a spare head - I said where do you work, cause where I'm at we get hit all the time.
BarstoolProphet
New member
Anti-freeze. It's the only explanation I can come up with for my adoration of winter.
No Such Agency
New member
There's a good chance they have to test it anyway, since it's not an official confirmation of your blood type. Some guy could write it wrong and end up in hemolysis, and everybody would get in trouble. I read that back in WW2 the Waffen SS (ick) had their blood types tattoed on their arm, but in that case, it was tattooed on by the same medic who tested their type! A lot more reliable.
@WP: aw thanks. Thanks to years of geekish clean living and no recent travel to exotic parts of the world, donation is something I'm "good at"... so I figure why not do it?
Torn blue sky
New member
Unless they get their arm blown off or otherwise minced lol! Hence marking armour, boots and helmet. We had all that on our tags but one can't be too careful! In a theatre the medics aren't going to be too worried about checking blood type to see if it's a proper match, for obvious reasons. One swatch at your tags or armour etc is more than good enough. Rather be infused with the wrong blood than bleed out in a sand box tbh =P
Oh the opportunities for smutty jokes....Tee Hee
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Einion
New member
Excellent, go you. I got the Irish award for 50 (we're allowed to give four times a year I think) and was eagerly heading toward the porcelain pelican for 100 donations when I had to stop due to a false-positive result for some obscure Asian virus.Not to brag but I'm a 33-time donor
Einion
Torn blue sky
New member
Nah mike, I don't mean actually checking to see if there's even and indicator before whacking anything in there! I mean doing the full lab thing. Hence why it's scribbled on everything usually.
As for the latter, i'd rather take my chances than face the inevitable =P
As for the latter, i'd rather take my chances than face the inevitable =P
ChemicalFencer
Lost in the desert
I was a blood donor but I've been bad and not done it here in Bahrain - and I've the good stuff O neg. Think I donated 10 times.
The last thing I donated was my bone marrow. Knocked out, flipped over, pants down (oo eer) tapped into my iliac crest and removed 1.37 ltr of 'fluids' (they could take 1.4 ltr max). People say it's really painful, its not. I think people should go ahead and put themselves on the register - its very worth while. There is only a slim chance of you being called up.
Odd stay in hospital. I got they and they said they didn't have any private rooms left in the hospital and asked if I was ok with an NHS one. Got in and they had the bed that goes up and down, TV, radio, small fridge and a fan. Then I was moved not an hour later in to a private room. Was I disappointed. I had a bed (it too went up and down), TV and thats it. The other thing was that it was done on Friday 13th . . . .
On great note the gent to received my marrow made a full recovery (I knew I was of good stock). I got such a buzz out of it when I heard he got 100% on his Karnofski scale. I think more and more people should join.
CF
The last thing I donated was my bone marrow. Knocked out, flipped over, pants down (oo eer) tapped into my iliac crest and removed 1.37 ltr of 'fluids' (they could take 1.4 ltr max). People say it's really painful, its not. I think people should go ahead and put themselves on the register - its very worth while. There is only a slim chance of you being called up.
Odd stay in hospital. I got they and they said they didn't have any private rooms left in the hospital and asked if I was ok with an NHS one. Got in and they had the bed that goes up and down, TV, radio, small fridge and a fan. Then I was moved not an hour later in to a private room. Was I disappointed. I had a bed (it too went up and down), TV and thats it. The other thing was that it was done on Friday 13th . . . .
On great note the gent to received my marrow made a full recovery (I knew I was of good stock). I got such a buzz out of it when I heard he got 100% on his Karnofski scale. I think more and more people should join.
CF
No Such Agency
New member
Huh, I don't know anyone who's donated marrow. That sounds like a lot :O But i should sign up, I keep meaning to. As you say, the odds of having to actually donate are pretty low, and yet I might help someone.
ChemicalFencer
Lost in the desert
A load of us went down to get tested for donating. There was a fencer from another club that needed one (or her friend). 5 of us went down, 4 were tested (one didn't like the idea of it all). The last one to be tested had his blood taken (2 vials), stood up, went whiter than titanium dioxide (the white pigment used in almost everything - check your tooth paste) and promptly fainted. It was pretty funny though. He did get a "I've been brave today" star sticker from the rather cute nurse.
