Blood Donation

[MKR&*42]

So Shar posted a thread last year about whether you would donate blood or not http://www.habboxforum.com/showthread.php?t=793417.

25 people said yes they would (24 not including myself), did anyone who didn't donate prior to seeing the thread and who can actually donate, donate any time within the last year and a bit? I donated in February last year and then at the end of May I think, and I have another appointment tomorrow (after much persuasion by the blood group to donate again).
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Some fun facts about donations:

- You can donate from age 17, there are other criteria here - http://www.blood.co.uk/giving-blood/who-can-give-blood/
- One blood donation can go to potentially 3 different people (or for medical research)
- Blood stocks located: http://www.blood.co.uk/about-blood/s...ls-statistics/ (the days stock is more important, the total stock is different because for example AB- blood is only present in 1pcnt of the population, hence the low stock total overall but the fact the amount they currently have would suffice for several days... I think that's how it works.)

- Effectively, anyone who has O- blood is a "universal donor" because their blood can usually go to anyone in any blood group, hence if you're O- and you can donate you should.
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You can register and make an appointment on http://www.blood.co.uk , I'm sure you can telephone to make an appointment and you might be able to walk into blood donation session and register there and then, but I'm not 100pcnt sure. So yes pls if you can consider donating blood If you want to know anything about the experience I can answer qs!!

[Alkaz]

I would love to give blood but I can't because of my sexuality which is a shame but I can see why they don't let you.

[-:Undertaker:-]

I keep meaning to go and donate tbh, I probably will in the summer when I am back home.

Even if it's just for the experience.

[scottish]

Nope.

[Empired]

I'm O- but cannot donate blood to other people which is a real shame because it can go to anyone. I have a blood disease and do donate blood but it's to be tested on to find out more about the disease rather than going to people who need a blood transfusion. At the moment my haemotologist isn't sure if it's safe for me to donate blood to other people. Exciting stuff.

[AgnesIO]

I don't, and realistically won't. They'd have to knock me out, even typing this message is making me feel really, really ill.

I struggle with vaccinations, never mind having blood taken.

[Phil]

I would love to but I'm terrified of needles

[Zelda]

i would love to but even thinking about it makes me start to go light headed and feel nauseous, if they did it while i was out cold because of some operation and i wouldn't be able to tell afterwards though in any way then that'd be wonderful though! But my haemophobia is quite strong tbh

[David]

dont think i seen/replied to that thread. but no i haven't given blood since then because i'm not allowed. i would though if i could.

[Yupt]

I didn't do that poll, but I donate as frequently as I can. I've only done it twice so far but I don't intend to stop.

Probably worth saying for those who would like to but are a little nervous - I went on my own just out of a "screw it, lets go" attitude and was pretty nervous when I arrived. You feel the needle go in, it's like an injection yes. But you don't feel blood sucking out of you, in fact you don't really feel it at all. There's the presence of the needle but even that feel like you've just got something poking your skin, it's not uncomfortable or painful.