Why would anyone consciously NOT donate blood?

[redtodd 7]

I donated blood today. A co-worker saw my bandage and asked what I did to it, I told her I gave blood. She said, "Ugh!! I could never give blood, I hate needles."

[Brad GLuckman 519]

Ummm...some people don't donate blood because they are afraid of needles

[SigEp316 0]

I don't like needles....although you do get a cheap buzz drinking on the day you donated the bloods

[RicemanX 20]

When I was 4, I fell down the stairs and cracked my head open. The only sight I remember before passing out was blood squirting out of my forehead onto my face and all over my Mom while she yells for help.

 

Anyways, I've had this thing with large amounts of blood coming out of my body ever since then.

 

Oh, and I don't think they would want my blood knowing my extra-curricular activities.

[kilroy69 1,268]

because its my god damn blood and I will do with it what I please.

[Badmojo1006 0]

I don't like needles....although you do get a cheap buzz drinking on the day you donated the bloods

 

 

that is what got me started on donating blood some 25 years ago...College buddy said, Lets go donate blood and then go to the party tonight...

 

I passed 10 gallons a couple of months ago

 

I consider it my civic duty, plus I can eat donuts and not feel guilty

[dolfan06 1]

I pass out when blood is drawn from my arm, every single time. Don't judge me.

[Brad GLuckman 519]

If you're eager to donate...I suggest donating at the sperm bank, so much more fun thatn donating blood

[GobbleDog 1,010]

Personally, I think it should be MANDATORY for everyone to be an organ donor.

 

If you want to be taken off the list - that's fine, but then you're also not allowed to recieve one either.

[Guest tiki_gods]

If I donate blood I want someone to be able to use it for free, hence the idea of a "donation". The Red Cross charges people money to use my blood. Fock that.

 

However, I still give blood because I want my 5 gallon donation pin. Makes me feel cool.

 

Personally, I think it should be MANDATORY for everyone to be an organ donor.

 

If you want to be taken off the list - that's fine, but then you're also not allowed to recieve one either.

 

I'm an organ donor but I get nervous the EMTs at my accident scene won't want me to live so they can harvest me.

[GuidingLight 3]

Personally, I think it should be MANDATORY for everyone to be an organ donor.

 

If you want to be taken off the list - that's fine, but then you're also not allowed to recieve one either.

Intersesting on how you use the words "personally" and "everyone". Oh yea, and "mandatory"

[dolfan06 1]

If I donate blood I want someone to be able to use it for free, hence the idea of a "donation". The Red Cross charges people money to use my blood. Fock that.

 

The Red Cross charges money for blood because it costs them money to collect it.

[Guest tiki_gods]

The Red Cross charges money for blood because it costs them money to collect it.

 

And to store it. If that is the case I want some cash for my blood, not some nasty egg salad sandwich.

[kutulu 1,703]

I got two freezers in my basement full of blood....after reading this thread, I'm thinking about putting it on ebay.

 

[GobbleDog 1,010]

Intersesting on how you use the words "personally" and "everyone". Oh yea, and "mandatory"

 

Yet, you didn't disagree.

 

I've always wondered if Walter Payton was an organ donor. He died while waiting on a liver transplant that never came. If he wasn't a donor, then that's pure irony.

[jerryskids 7,083]

I used to donate a lot because my blood is A- (fairly uncommon) and lacks some virus that most people have, thus it can be given to infants (even more uncommon). But that was when I worked at an office and the bloodmobile came regularly. Now I work from home and, being the lazy fock that I am, haven't donated in years.

 

I suddenly feel bad about this.

[kutulu 1,703]

I used to donate a lot because my blood is A- (fairly uncommon) and lacks some virus that most people have, thus it can be given to infants (even more uncommon). But that was when I worked at an office and the bloodmobile came regularly. Now I work from home and, being the lazy fock that I am, haven't donated in years.

 

I suddenly feel bad about this.

 

You could slit your wrists, two birds

[SUXBNME 1,594]

I don't wanna get the AIDS, ya know.

[Badmojo1006 0]

I don't wanna get the AIDS, ya know.

[dolfan06 1]

I used to donate a lot because my blood is A- (fairly uncommon) and lacks some virus that most people have, thus it can be given to infants (even more uncommon).

 

You must mean cytomegalovirus.

 

:bringintheknowledge:

[GettnHuge 2]

I donate platelets, aka apheresis

 

you get to watch a movie

[Ms. Shared-Syringes 0]

I haven't donated in a long time because last time I did, the incompetent, screw-up of a phlebotomist tripped over the tubing running from the needle in my arm into the collection bag, ripping the needle from my vein and spewing blood everywhere.

 

NOT good times.

[dolfan06 1]

I donate platelets, aka apheresis

 

you get to watch a movie

 

Apheresis is a process by which whole fluids are collected and then spun and separated into their component parts. It is used for a variety of clinical purposes, including the collection of platelets and peripheral blood stem cells, and therapeutic plasma exchanges, among others. Platelets are used for blood clotting, most frequently in bone marrow transplant and surgical procedures involving the loss of a significant amount of blood. The collection of a full usable unit of platelets from a single donor can take several hours.

 

I could drop the knowledge on this blood donor sh1t all day!

[GettnHuge 2]

Platelets are used for blood clotting, most frequently in bone marrow transplant

 

 

The collection of a full usable unit of platelets from a single donor can take several hours.

 

I started doing it when my best friend (at 19) had leukemia

 

 

several hours? sure but if you are young and healthy it's less than 2 hours.

[jerryskids 7,083]

You must mean cytomegalovirus.

 

:bringintheknowledge:

CMV sounds vaguely like the virus acronym, so I presume that was it.

[IrishDrunk 0]

Because fock 'em, that's why!!

[Isotopes 1]

I used to do it but last time about a year ago the lady took the needle out my arm and blood started spraying everywhere. I got it all over me and finished the day with blood all over me. Now when I think about giving blood it makes me sick to my stomach.

[frank 2,345]

When I was 4, I fell down the stairs and cracked my open.

 

[De Novo 0]

Most blood drives are mid-day during the week. I don't feel very good the rest of the day after giving blood, and I work long hours pretty often. So, I don't give blood. I'm an organ donor though

[Toro 3]

I need every drop to get this monster cack into action.

[naomi 360]

Slightly anemic. I might but it probably wouldn't be reccomended.

[Big Blue 06 196]

If I donate blood I want someone to be able to use it for free, hence the idea of a "donation". The Red Cross charges people money to use my blood. Fock that.

 

However, I still give blood because I want my 5 gallon donation pin. Makes me feel cool.

I'm an organ donor but I get nervous the EMTs at my accident scene won't want me to live so they can harvest me.

 

Most of us don't want you to live, and we have no interest in your organs.

[Recidivist 1]

I used to donate a lot because my blood is A-

 

Same here bro.

 

Those fockers at the blood center used to call me all the time to come down. And I always did, cause I'm cursed with a conscience.

 

One day they called me up to do the apheresis. I hadn't done it before, so why not? I could do it more frequently and help more people! Just the thought almost made me come.

 

I was about 2/3 of the way into it (about 70 minutes or so) and I get this really sharp pain in my left arm - the one in which they are pumping the centrifuged blood back into me.

 

I look around at the other folks in the room who are having the same thing done and they are all relaxed and appear pain free. Well, I am no pus$y so I'm not going to call for the nurse despite the ever increasing pain.

 

Fast forward 10 minutes - I'm in sheer agony. I'm drenched in sweat and my left arm feels as if it is about to explode. I call the nurse over. She lifts the gauze off of the needle going into my left arm to reveal a hemotoma the size of half a softball. The best was the guy next to me who was just getting hooked up seeing it - his face was

 

Thus, now my stance on blood donation is like Peter Parker before Uncle Ben got killed. If they need my blood to live they're focked

[FutbolJugador 0]

If you don't weigh enough they won't let you donate blood.

 

Gobbledog: that's actually not all that bad of an idea but I'm sure there are some ethics issues someone would bring up.

[GobbleDog 1,010]

Gobbledog: that's actually not all that bad of an idea but I'm sure there are some ethics issues someone would bring up.

 

 

Alright, one for the good guys!

 

Given all the good that would come from it (saving millions of lives), any ethical problems would pale in comparison.

[Call me...Tim? 0]

I donated blood today. A co-worker saw my bandage and asked what I did to it, I told her I gave blood. She said, "Ugh!! I could never give blood, I hate needles."

 

 

I have O+ (or whatever it is that anyone can take), and I don't give blood.

 

I tried once, but because I inject myself with MS medicine, I'm apparently a "high-risk" donor - so, they won't take my blood. How dumb is that?

[Liberals are Clueless 0]

I donated blood today. A co-worker saw my bandage and asked what I did to it, I told her I gave blood. She said, "Ugh!! I could never give blood, I hate needles."

You answered your question in your post....

[GobbleDog 1,010]

I have O+ (or whatever it is that anyone can take), and I don't give blood.

 

I tried once, but because I inject myself with MS medicine, I'm apparently a "high-risk" donor - so, they won't take my blood. How dumb is that?

 

You have MS?

[Call me...Tim? 0]

You have MS?

 

 

Yep. At least that's what the doctors say - even though my symptoms and progression are markedly atypical - symptoms are much more varied that typical MS but my lesions heal completely after an attack. I think I was exposed to elevated mercury levels as a kid, but the doctors don't seem to give that theory much credence.

 

The MS is why everyone calls me "Call me...Twitchy" - after an attack a few years ago, I was having facial ticks.

[GobbleDog 1,010]

Yep. At least that's what the doctors say - even though my symptoms and progression are markedly atypical - symptoms are much more varied that typical MS but my lesions heal completely after an attack. I think I was exposed to elevated mercury levels as a kid, but the doctors don't seem to give that theory much credence.

 

The MS is why everyone calls me "Call me...Twitchy" - after an attack a few years ago, I was having facial ticks.

 

I never knew you had MS. That sucks. I spose we all have some sort of cross to bear. Unfortunately yours seems unfairly heavy.

 

Call me Twitchy.