Donating blood

[Ms. DICKINSON]

I'm going in to Blood Source tomorrow for the first time to donate some blood.
Just want to know how often do you guys do it...

The blood bank gives donors a pint of ice cream in return

 

[eldorado99]

Never done it, probably never will, but kudos to those that do.

 

[DCal430]

:thumbsdown:

I'm going in to Blood Source tomorrow for the first time to donate some blood.
Just want to know how often do you guys do it...

The blood bank gives donors a pint of ice cream in return

I think they would get more donors if instead of spending money on free icecream they gave the donors something like $5.

 

[kranky]

I donate about 4 times a year (plasma). Our blood bank doesn't pay anything.

 

[Anubis]

i give ever 12 weeks, i give Dbl red cells every time. ive been doing that for something like 7 years

i get freen lunch and a ticket to enter an end of year raffel for a TV, thats it.

the TV part is from work to try to get more people to donate i beleive. however we normallty get 100 or so units every time they are here

 

[TheVrolok]

Every 57 days, give or take.

 

[ichy]

Nobody in the US pays for blood. That would give people who're ineligible an incentive to lie on the screening forms.

The Red Cross won't take my blood because I lived in Cameroon for 3 years when I was a kid. Guess they're worried I have teh AIDZ.

 

[Platypus]

not allowed, so never.

 

[Murloc]

not allowed, so never.

are you in those religions who prefer to die instead of getting a transfusion, and if they get it they sue the hospital?

Anyway, I don't donate blood but lots of people do when they come in the school once a year.

 

[Platypus]

are you in those religions who prefer to die instead of getting a transfusion, and if they get it they sue the hospital?

Anyway, I don't donate blood but lots of people do when they come in the school once a year.

No, I'm gay. Type O- too, such a shame that it could help so many people.

 

[fatpat268]

Unless something's change recently, I'm not allowed to give blood either because I lived in Europe in the late 80s.

 

[silverpig]

Platelets every 2 weeks, but I'm on a break right now.

 

[Possessed Freak]

Not allowed due to the number of surgeries and resulting infections I have had.

 

[Blackjack200]

Yeah, the inner crease of my elbow looks like freakin braille from all the pricks. People probably think I'm a heroin addict or something. Nobody ever gives me anything, my dad gets gas cards and BB gift cards and shit, I don't get nuthin.

 

[bigrash]

I donate every 6 months or so. They normally give me a $5 Starbucks card.

 

[IGemini]

O-pos, donated over two gallons so far. I try to keep it close to the eight week turnaround.

 

[Red Squirrel]

I donate every couple months or so. I'm type O neg.

 

[Riverhound777]

I don't think I could handle it. I about pass out when getting blood drawn for tests. Not from fear, though I don't enjoy it. It's afterwards, I get super light headed and have to sit down for a while. I need my bloods!

 

[nageov3t]

I've had anal sex, so I'm banned from donating blood forever.

 

[Blackjack200]

I've had anal sex, so I'm banned from donating blood forever.

Don't remember for sure, but I think the last time I donated they asked if I had had anal sex in the last 5 years.

...so if you a serious dry spell

 

[ShawnD1]

I don't think I could handle it. I about pass out when getting blood drawn for tests. Not from fear, though I don't enjoy it. It's afterwards, I get super light headed and have to sit down for a while. I need my bloods!

I get this too. I get so sick that i dry heave and i can barely stand.

 

[her209]

I've gotten free shirts for donating.

 

[Anubis]

I've had anal sex, so I'm banned from donating blood forever.

are you a dude?

only asking because they only care about men and anal. there is no question for women about it

 

[BrownShoes]

3 times a year.

 

[nageov3t]

Don't remember for sure, but I think the last time I donated they asked if I had had anal sex in the last 5 years.

...so if you a serious dry spell

it's a lifetime ban for any male who's had sex with another male at any point after 1977.

and I could just lie (I've never had unprotected sex, not particularly promiscuous when it comes to anal, and I'm tested regularly regardless), but fuck them if they don't want my blood.