Blood donation

[pjd57]

Shame the cardboard packaging tastes better

I love them.

 

[sheddy]

Got to 50+ donations, but packed it in after doctors started grumbling about the time taken to fill the bloody bag.

 

[Kryton521]

I gave mine last Thursday. An awful lot of money has been spent to protect everyone as much as possible, so I was happy to give.

Not so happy when I went for a ride on Friday and thought I'd die!!!

 

[The Bystander]

Time for another donation. After the low iron failure last time I've been taking iron supplements, licking girders and eating as much spinach as I could manage (I didn't resort to wrapping it around liver @PeteXXX but I did look sideways at a scotch egg in the Co-op. I'm not sure if there's any other way of looking at them).

And still the damned test didn't sink!!! All was not lost though. The machine reading came in at 145. I think the threshold is 138 so I sailed through and was able to donate

 

[Kestevan]

On an enforced break till next June due to new tattoos... Had to turn them down last week when they rang me to see if I could donate.

 

[PeteXXX]

My next appointment is just before Christmas, assuming my shift pattern doesn't get messed around with!

 

[vickster]

I’m due to go on 3 December 👍

 

[PeteXXX]

58th pint of A+ drained from my left arm...

Dry ride there.. Wet ride home.. ☔

 

[vickster]

I’m due to go on 3 December 👍

I had to cancel due to the impending ankle surgery

 

[PeteXXX]

My next appointment is booked for March 21st.
If I don't sort it now, it'll be full up!

 

[Basil.B]

I only just scrapped through again last month. Might have a break from donating for six months.

 

[The Bystander]

I only just scrapped through again last month. Might have a break from donating for six months.

Or you could try topping up with an iron supplement for a few weeks before donating (if low iron/haemoglobin was the problem).
It did the trick for me. I saw it as a win/win: I was able to donate again and I was benefiting from improved iron levels too

 

[oldwheels]

I have donated in the past but nowadays they don't want to know about me. I had a cancerous tumour which was removed successfully in the past so that rules me out.

 

[Basil.B]

Or you could try topping up with an iron supplement for a few weeks before donating (if low iron/haemoglobin was the problem).
It did the trick for me. I saw it as a win/win: I was able to donate again and I was benefiting from improved iron levels too

I was taking iron supplement tablets and munching spinach for about a fortnight before my donation.
Will have to try and remember to take them about a month before next time.

 

[The Bystander]

I've already made a note on my calendar to start iron supplements a month before my next donation. Best of luck with topping up next time @Basil.B