Giving Blood

[Scuba Pete]

I am a bleeder. Once after giving I was just unlocking my car when the out of breath phlebotemist caught up with me.

YOU'RE BLEEDING! she screamed and I looked down and saw the trail of red through the parking lot and down the sidewalk and into the building.

They had people out cleaning the blood up and kept me for another 1/2 hour or better.

 

[No*s]

I have given over ten gallons, but have not been in a long while. It's just not convenient.

NetDoc...you must have been is shriveled up like a prune after that .

 

[Lightkeeper]

I tried to give blood last year, but had a panic attack. I have a phobia of needles, and felt very bad for not being able to give blood.

I admire your courage in trying. We all give in different ways.

 

[martha]

Yes, please, I'll have a bloody Michel. Thank you.

Although If you mix yours with mine, that would be called "The Bomb!"
The truth is I've always been afraid of the needle. When I was a child I had to have blood drawn and when the tech was doing it, she found that she had the wrong something or other after she had the needle part in my arm. So I had to sit with the needle part in my arm til she found the right tube to attach. It was painful and freightening for a child and sort of put me off from future donations.
If you think I am scared, you should have seen my former husband. We were required to get a blood test for marriage, so we went to the hospital to give our blood. Unfortunately for him, as we entered the floor to find the room in the hospital there was a nurse carrying a large bag of blood. It must have been for a transfusion. Well when my husband saw this large bag of blood, he looked at me with a fear in his eyes and screamed, " Oh no! Do we have to give all of that? No Martha, no." He went running down the hall in terror. It was all I could do to convince him that we did not have to give that much blood.

I know giving blood is very important, so I will try to muster up the courage to give the next time the blood drive comes to town. I promise.

 

[Majikthise]

I used to give blood on a regular basis ,but since I contracted lyme disease I can't.

 

[linwood]

I`ve given 4 gallons.
I try to go every couple of months and they call me alot because I have b-?
I think..which is pretty common I guess so they need it alot.

However for a funny story

Doesn`t sound very funny to me No*s.
Sounds damn scary regardless if you hadn`t done anything to expose yourself.

 

[TranceAm]

I haven't donated blood yet (ever.).
So personal note to check into that this week. Afterall it is a free experience. A little horror in a movie costs $10 in no time, not including food and beverages.

However, I have a personal donation of organs card. Does that count for the good cause?
I know they are all second hand parts, and not all are in prestine condition. But it is the gesture that counts right?

 

[No*s]

Doesn`t sound very funny to me No*s.
Sounds damn scary regardless if you hadn`t done anything to expose yourself.

Well, they caught the screw-up, and nobody was given the infected blood. Given enough instances, something like that is bound to happen. I just happened to be the one that it happened to. If someone had been infected through the mix-up...that would have disturbed me greatly.

You are right, when I first heard it, my heart just about stopped. It was very scarey then. I kept going over ways I could have gotten it, and turned up blank. I never have done drugs, the odds of getting it from my one surgery are very low, and I was a geek, so I didn't exactly have sexual experience. I just kept going over it all.

Now, it's just over, and nobody was hurt .

 

[Lookingformeaning]

I cant give blood, the thought of needles terrifies me. Plus, last year I passed out when they tried. Id love to do it, you know to help others, but I just dont think its physically possible.

 

[Circle_One]

Wow, so many people who have overwhelming fears of needles. I guess tattoos are out of the question for you guys eh?

When I have to get blood drawn, I always ask the nurses if I can do it myself. It kind of creeps them out and as of yet, none have let me, *shrug* go figure.

 

[Lookingformeaning]

Yea. I dont think tattoos are going to be possible for me. Unless i am completely knocked out. lol. I dont think I could get blood drawn even if I did it myself lol. that would probably be even worse.

 

[Circle_One]

Yeah, I'm thinking it would be tons worse to do it yourself. Hence the reason I get odd looks from the nurses when I ask

 

[Lookingformeaning]

At least you ask. I dont think I have the guts to do that.

 

[Circle_One]

Meh, I just do it because I think it's funny to see the looks on the nurses faces. They get all scared of me. It's pretty entertaining. They all think I'm this scary morbid chick now, I love it. But maybe one day I'll get the nurse that will let me, that should be fun.

 

[No*s]

Wow, so many people who have overwhelming fears of needles. I guess tattoos are out of the question for you guys eh?

When I have to get blood drawn, I always ask the nurses if I can do it myself. It kind of creeps them out and as of yet, none have let me, *shrug* go figure.

I'll give blood, but I couldn't bring myself to the latter. It's always fun going through the interview, "No...no...no...no..." lol.

 

[Unedited]

I can't donate my blood. Too bad, too, beacuse I've never had a fear of needles. I hate when the nurse tells me to "look away" and tries to hide the needle from me though. I like to see what's been shoved inside my vein.

 

[Jaymes]

Wow, so many people who have overwhelming fears of needles. I guess tattoos are out of the question for you guys eh?

When I have to get blood drawn, I always ask the nurses if I can do it myself. It kind of creeps them out and as of yet, none have let me, *shrug* go figure.

Actually, I don't think I'd have any problem with a tattoo. It's just needles that go into veins that horrify me. (I suppose the lack of fear for sharp things not going deep stemmed from my self-injury a few years back)

 

[huajiro]

I completely believe in donating.....I just have one problem with it.

We give blood away......and the hospitals sell it for outrageous prices per pint. They basically destroy our charitable intentions.

 

[Lycan]

I give blood every chance I get...
As someone who has received blood, I feel obligated to return the kindness the person who donated the blood I needed showed.

 

[anders]

We give blood away......and the hospitals sell it for outrageous prices per pint. They basically destroy our charitable intentions.

That would be utterly impossible in Sweden. Hospitals need and use their supplies, and it would probably be frightfully illegal for them to sell blood.

I used to donate every other month. (Now, I think the frequency has been severely loewred.) I always felt great afterwards, because, as somebody hinted at, it revitalizes the bone marrow so that I am in a much better position if I have a major trauma. I must admit, though, that the fact that got me starting donating during my university years was that it was rewarded with a cheese sandwich, a glass of juice, and about $3. (That was a fair amount of money at the time.)

My veins are such that I have thought of offering myself for medical school as a guinea pig for vene punction, but I think that they only use their classmates.

After having had a stroke, I constantly take aspirin (lower case, implying that I use another brand of acetyl salicylic acid than the Bayer trade-marked one) for reducing blood clotting, and so, they don't want my blood any more.