Do you give blood?

[Jon Miller]

I just did today. My first time ever. It felt so worng...

I don't think much was coming out at first, but then I filled it up real big after I started squeezing.

My legs are killing me from doing Body Pump yesterday morning, but I really should do some cardio today (to do 6 times this week). Do you think I could do it in 5.5 hours (6 hours after I gave the blood).

I was also amazed at all the people who couldn't give... including those who spent a lot of time in europe or anyone who engaged in homosexual sex (which considering 10-20% of people have...) (or people who had been in prisons..).

I am really deathly afraid of needles... I just gave blood because I have always said it was the right thing to do.

peace,
Jon Miller

[Solly]

Once when I wanted to see what getting pissed after it would be like.

[Asher]

I cannot. I am teh gay.

[Arrian]

I just gave on Wednesday. I've been giving since last year... which I'm somewhat ashamed of. It's such a simple thing, yet it took me until I was 29 to do it.

Now I do it every time I'm elligible.

The things that will disqualify you are pretty broad...

Have you ever had sex with someone from Africa. Period, that's it. Wow.

Gay sex since 1977. They do test the blood for HIV, so... meh.

Some are even stranger than that - spending a certain amount of time in the UK in the early to mid 1990s, for instance. I wonder what that's all about.

I always fight the urge to laugh when they ask me if I've ever been paid for sex. I almost want to say to the screener person (inevitably female) "do I LOOK like I get paid for sex!?"

-Arrian

[Solly]

"Some are even stranger than that - spending a certain amount of time in the UK in the early to mid 1990s, for instance. I wonder what that's all about."

Mad cow disease.

[Arrian]

And ten years later you could have mad cow in your blood? Wow.

I *just* missed their cutoff date (1996). I was in the UK for ~5 months in 1997. And, as I recall, mad cow was still an issue. And I ate beef. HAH.

-Arrian

[LordShiva]

Originally posted by Doddler
Once when I wanted to see what getting pissed after it would be like.

You could do someone a favour by getting pissed before you donated

[mrmitchell]

Have you ever had sex with someone from Africa. Period, that's it. Wow.

John Kerry cannot give blood.

[Spec]

I should. I had an operation 10 years ago that required 11 blood transfusion. If it wern't for that, I'd be dead.

I should really give some back....even more.

Spec.

[Darsnan]

I've donated about 10 times in my life, most of it within the last 5 years.

Interesting thought I had the last time I was giving blood: if I eat pork for breakfast then give blood, and that blood goes to a Jew or Muslim, what happens to that person in the afterlife?


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[Spec]

He blows up when they stick the needle in....Its a chemical reaction. Instantaneous.

Spec.

[Tattila the Hun]

I have, from 2000 or so. Some 20 times, have to check, if I still have the hemoglobin-paper they give me.

[germanos]

I used to, but since I started working in Syria they won't let me because of malaria (not really a big risk there. It's rather dry over there )

I can still give plasma, but I hate the idea they are pumping something back. You're hooked up to the shifting machine and you see all kind of airbubbles in various tubes . Offcourse there's all sort of safeguards to make sure those bubbles won't actually enter your vains, but after two times I gave up.

[rah]

I used to give all the time. 3 to 4 times a year for over a decade.
We use to have races to see who could fill it faster. (yeah way too competetive and we needed more hobbies, like computer war games. )
Cheap drunk that night.

But about 8 years ago there was a streak where the nurse would keep missing the vein, and that gets painful.
After the fifth time of painfulling giving after a miss I told the nurse, one more time and no more. She missed so I haven't given since.

[KrazyHorse]

I gave 2-3 times a year for 5 years. I haven't given since I moved to the States. Partly I'm uncertain whether I'm allowed to donate. Partly I've been lazy.