Thread: Giving Blood...

Good evening,

Gave blood yesterday and I was curious as to how many TTPer's do the same? If you do why? if you dont why not? Any body here afraid of needles? Blood? Any crazy related story's. Have any of you received blood?

I started giving blood for about the past year now. I happen to be O- so I can give blood to everybody. That also makes me on the blood banks high priority list of people who get called. As soon as X number of weeks pass(usually 2 months i think) They call me about once a week.

Fortunately our work has the blood bank bus stop by every 2/3 months so we can give blood(very convenient).
I give blood because of the tasty treats i get afterword Actually I do it because any blood type can use my blood and they are short on supply of some types in my area . Only down side is if something happens to me only O- blood i can receive from a donor.

My only compliant though is how much they call, I suppose i could tell them to not call and I will come in about at my normal interval. They always say there is an "emergency need" for my type. Since they say this every time I'm starting to wonder if they just say it to get me to donate more frequently or there actually is a real emergency. Maybe I'll inquire next time.

later,

i donate about once a month...least i can do to help people who need it.


i hate needles, but you can deal with it once in awhile.lol

Originally Posted by bust331

My dad does, I don't like needles all too much.

At one point I, my parents, and the doc's were afraid I had the condition where you pancreas ruptures or whatnot, that was the only time I had blood taken. Weird shit.

I see. Yeah the needle thing is interesting. Many people do not like them and i can see why. Very sharp pointy object are not so nice. For me though they really don't bother that much, not really sure why but they don't.

Speaking of needles. A long time ago when i was in grade school, a buddy and I were walking home. We saw a needle just laying on the ground and before i could say anything he picked it up, and happened to poke himself.
Lets just say he was lucky and didn't get anything, but he had to take a shit load of pills and such to make sure + a bunch of testing. ( still wondering why he picked that up....)

Nice Sauso. Now that i think about it doesn't your blood only take less than a week to regenerate that lost pint? I don't remember. Its pretty dang quick though.

I'm not afraid of needles so when I was in school, and no one EVER wanted to volunteer for practice, I volunteered all the time to help classmates learn how to take blood, though of course, they would take next to nothing, I figured it was good for me to do to help people learn (though I looked like a junkie the whole damn time lol), and the teachers were usually my test dummies =P After school, I got busy, and being pregnant and such I just got out of the loop in donating for a long time. I know I really should though, especially being A-, since it's a rare type, I really should get back around to doing so.

Originally Posted by DancingCorpse

I would donate regularly too if I wasn't deathly afraid of needles, anytime I am in the hospital and I have to have a needle put in me, they literally have to hold me down because I jerk so much, even when I try not to, it just happens. It really sucks.

it's really no wonder the women have the babies lol, ya big pussies... seriously

Originally Posted by DancingCorpse

Originally Posted by Faith

Originally Posted by DancingCorpse

I would donate regularly too if I wasn't deathly afraid of needles, anytime I am in the hospital and I have to have a needle put in me, they literally have to hold me down because I jerk so much, even when I try not to, it just happens. It really sucks.

it's really no wonder the women have the babies lol, ya big pussies... seriously

It ain't voluntary for me, I can't control it.

of course it's voluntary, it's all in your head, you psych yourself up to the point it 'seems' involuntary, but it's not

I personally cannot give blood as I am on some serious amounts of kumadin and such for my heart.

But I can ardently encourage all of you to start/continue/givemore blood, like I do whenever the topic comes up, as I am here before as living proof of the fruits of your minor pain. You think the few minutes you endured under the needle were bad? When you are in the brief discomfort, think about the good you are doing for people like me. I have scars on each of my forearm from having an IV & Morphine & Blood tube in me for about a week, yeah it hurt- but it beats the alternative.
(its somewhat funny when people notice them and ask "if thats from shooting up")

Seriously though, I had about 12 transfusions plus about 3 more platelets (used to try and get the new blood to clot) when things went a little bad afterwords. When you give blood it does not go sit in a stockpile at some warehouse, men/women/&children use it on a daily basis and more is always needed by your local hospital.


(Same thing can be said for being organ donor, flip to the back of your driver's license and sign that line!)