Donate blood, save lives, and enjoy biscuits as a reward.
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They don’t want my gay blood so I’ve got absolutely no sympathy for them. Maybe if they didn’t discriminate then there wouldn’t be a shortage 🤷🏻♂️
Edit: I’m not at all surprised to see that all the homophobes are downvoting me.
There are a few folks here who have donated tonnes of blood over the years, and I salute every one of them.
This happens every summer (I assume because of holidays)
My next donation is about 3 weeks away at this point, time 15… I think.
Blood stocks are low? Must be a good time to buy.
I donated today at my usual time and place. It seemed busier than normal. Go get your biscuits you bloody legends! I had an orange club.
Bloodstock!! 🤘🤘
Note: you lose a lot of salt when donating blood (like several grams!) so you have a legit reason to eat loads of salty food afterwards. I forgot what I had last time, but think it was a pack of some kind of savoury biscuit things. Sugary foods, not so good.
You can get drunk for cheaper afterwards.
I have O- blood and have donated a few times. I would like to again but anytime a needle comes near me I turn pale, get shakey and flinch away. I know it’s stupid but I can’t help it 😭
They don’t collect where i live, or I would, esp as I’m b-neg
I’ve donated just over 50 times, but have been ill for a couple of months so can’t go. They keep asking me to donate 4-5 times per week. It seems like they’re really desperate atm.
My lad took a morning off work, drove for 45 minutes to get to the donation place and they sent him away without taking any, because he’d not had breakfast.
You can’t walk in to donate anymore. You need to book an appointment weeks and months in advance for a random time. Total ball ache. I want to help but they don’t make it easy.
They need to make it quicker and easier to donate. It’s difficult finding a convenient appointment
Donated my 47th donation yesterday, shame you have to wait 3-4 months between donations as I would happily go every month.
Closest place that takes blood is a little over 16 miles from me, is there honestly no way to donate without traveling? I would give as often as I could if so
I was supposed to donate a couple of weeks ago. Unfortunately I ended up on antibiotics. However I have rescheduled and will be donating in about 3 weeks time instead.
Maybe if they didn’t take away local donation sites more people would. I’m o negative and happily donated often. But they stopped coming to my town and now I’d have to walk 20 minutes then get 2 buses there and 2 back and that’s not something I’m easily able to do. I don’t have anyone to give me a lift either and taxis are expensive.
Ironically as well I just went to visit the website to see if they’ve got any new locations closer to me and there’s a queue to even enter the website to view donation sites!
I’ve just signed up and the only appointments available aren’t until November…
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Donate blood, save lives, and enjoy biscuits as a reward.
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They don’t want my gay blood so I’ve got absolutely no sympathy for them. Maybe if they didn’t discriminate then there wouldn’t be a shortage 🤷🏻♂️
Edit: I’m not at all surprised to see that all the homophobes are downvoting me.
There are a few folks here who have donated tonnes of blood over the years, and I salute every one of them.
This happens every summer (I assume because of holidays)
My next donation is about 3 weeks away at this point, time 15… I think.
Blood stocks are low? Must be a good time to buy.
I donated today at my usual time and place. It seemed busier than normal. Go get your biscuits you bloody legends! I had an orange club.
Bloodstock!! 🤘🤘
Note: you lose a lot of salt when donating blood (like several grams!) so you have a legit reason to eat loads of salty food afterwards. I forgot what I had last time, but think it was a pack of some kind of savoury biscuit things. Sugary foods, not so good.
You can get drunk for cheaper afterwards.
I have O- blood and have donated a few times. I would like to again but anytime a needle comes near me I turn pale, get shakey and flinch away. I know it’s stupid but I can’t help it 😭
They don’t collect where i live, or I would, esp as I’m b-neg
I’ve donated just over 50 times, but have been ill for a couple of months so can’t go. They keep asking me to donate 4-5 times per week. It seems like they’re really desperate atm.
My lad took a morning off work, drove for 45 minutes to get to the donation place and they sent him away without taking any, because he’d not had breakfast.
You can’t walk in to donate anymore. You need to book an appointment weeks and months in advance for a random time. Total ball ache. I want to help but they don’t make it easy.
They need to make it quicker and easier to donate. It’s difficult finding a convenient appointment
Donated my 47th donation yesterday, shame you have to wait 3-4 months between donations as I would happily go every month.
Closest place that takes blood is a little over 16 miles from me, is there honestly no way to donate without traveling? I would give as often as I could if so
I was supposed to donate a couple of weeks ago. Unfortunately I ended up on antibiotics. However I have rescheduled and will be donating in about 3 weeks time instead.
Maybe if they didn’t take away local donation sites more people would. I’m o negative and happily donated often. But they stopped coming to my town and now I’d have to walk 20 minutes then get 2 buses there and 2 back and that’s not something I’m easily able to do. I don’t have anyone to give me a lift either and taxis are expensive.
Ironically as well I just went to visit the website to see if they’ve got any new locations closer to me and there’s a queue to even enter the website to view donation sites!
I’ve just signed up and the only appointments available aren’t until November…