marinefish4life Posted March 27, 2012 Report Share Posted March 27, 2012 DONT TITAN MUSCLES CAISE IT HURTS MORE :thup: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hovmoller Posted March 27, 2012 Report Share Posted March 27, 2012 Give blood.... Squirt! :sml1: Nah seriously good on you... you get that pleasant feeling afterwards that you have done something good and perhaps helped someone. Agree that more people who could.. should! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Squirt Posted March 27, 2012 Author Report Share Posted March 27, 2012 :slfg: Yeah agreed. A good thing to be supporting. I actually never liked needles. Time to toughen up I guess... :digH: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
purplecatfish Posted March 27, 2012 Report Share Posted March 27, 2012 Good on ya for donating, keep a count of how many times you donate, then when you're really really old you can think about the dozens and dozens of lives you save. Unfortunately I can't give blood any more because I lived in the UK around the Mad Cow Disease time. I really miss it, it always felt nice knowing I was helping strangers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blueether Posted March 27, 2012 Report Share Posted March 27, 2012 only ever had one nurse screw up putting in the needle in, didn't hurt too much more at the time. Got very used to needles in the UK as the last place I worked we had to give a sample every few months for testing for Pb. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LYNDYLOO Posted March 27, 2012 Report Share Posted March 27, 2012 I sort of think of it as, There are people out there that are needing this blood, and if it wasn't for people like us that are willing to donate blood, then those people that need it would no longer be here. I think that far out ways the fact that I don't like needles, so just have to toughen up and bare with it for the short amount of time it takes to have blood taken. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spoon Posted March 28, 2012 Report Share Posted March 28, 2012 some blood clinics have a sign outside saying what blood types they need im a+ the most common type .ignore the signs as blood can be sold to other countries and the money help to buy more equipment Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Copper Posted March 28, 2012 Report Share Posted March 28, 2012 ignore the signs as blood can be sold to other countries and the money help to buy more equipment Umm... no. Maybe overseas (Europe mainly?) but onselling blood doesn't happen here in New Zealand. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markvs Posted March 28, 2012 Report Share Posted March 28, 2012 As far as i know they don't sell overseas, The drinks and biscuits are much better than they used to be, everyone now has access to the choccy ones, unlike in the days when i first started giving. Apparently they do not like you beating the 4 minute donation. :sage: I gave last night and it was 4;45 minutes. I have been giving for over 20 years as and when i could. I worry that I could be mistaken for a naughty person with all the holes in my elbow :gigl: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joshlikesfish Posted March 28, 2012 Report Share Posted March 28, 2012 Don't call out the gay man for lying to the blood people. It creates a very tense moment... haha Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Squirt Posted April 2, 2012 Author Report Share Posted April 2, 2012 Okay I've put my name down for 10:45 on wednesday... But I miss chemistry and biology, what a pity Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LYNDYLOO Posted April 2, 2012 Report Share Posted April 2, 2012 Good Luck, look forward to hearing how it goes :thup: Pity about missing chemistry and biology :gigl: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrahamC Posted April 2, 2012 Report Share Posted April 2, 2012 Actually I believe some components of blood are sold to Australia, and then we pay a huge price to buy it back as intravenous gamma globulin. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Copper Posted April 2, 2012 Report Share Posted April 2, 2012 Actually I believe some components of blood are sold to Australia, and then we pay a huge price to buy it back as intravenous gamma globulin. Yes and no. Some New Zealand plasma is sent to the company CSL in Australia, where they turn it into lots of different blood products and send it back to New Zealand. I don't think anything is sold as such, but there would be manufacturing/transport/etc costs associated with the process. I think one of the reasons that intravenous gamma globulin is so expensive is due to the amount of work that goes into making it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sophia Posted April 2, 2012 Report Share Posted April 2, 2012 Is there ever any likelihood that those of us who were in UK during mad cow disease (cue Anthony Law......................) will be allowed to give blood? I would like to do something useful like donating some but not allowed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phoenix44 Posted April 2, 2012 Report Share Posted April 2, 2012 Is there ever any likelihood that those of us who were in UK during mad cow disease......give blood Probably not. :slfg: Mad cow and all.. :sick: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrahamC Posted April 2, 2012 Report Share Posted April 2, 2012 My recollection is somewhat faint, and probably impaired, but I was told by a prescriber that it used to cost the DHB nothing to get IVIG from the blood service, but then after processing moved to Oz, the DHB had to pay $10 - 30k for a course. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Copper Posted April 2, 2012 Report Share Posted April 2, 2012 Is there ever any likelihood that those of us who were in UK during mad cow disease (cue Anthony Law......................) will be allowed to give blood? I would like to do something useful like donating some but not allowed. Probably not any time soon. There isn't any tests that they can do to check for mad cow disease in the blood. The chances of anybody actually having it are really low, but I think in the past there has been one or two cases of people coming down with mad cow disease from a blood transfusion (overseas) so it is possible. Also, the New Zealand Blood Service tends to be really paranoid about these sorts of things (another example would be people with chronic fatigue syndrome) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sophia Posted April 2, 2012 Report Share Posted April 2, 2012 Mad cow and all.. :sick: It might improve some people :gigl: I do try to contain my madness somewhat though 8) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Copper Posted April 2, 2012 Report Share Posted April 2, 2012 My recollection is somewhat faint, and probably impaired, but I was told by a prescriber that it used to cost the DHB nothing to get IVIG from the blood service, but then after processing moved to Oz, the DHB had to pay $10 - 30k for a course. Probably before the blood service was a national organization. The DHBs used to run the blood service bit of the hospital too (so no charge?), but since 2000, the blood service has become a separate government organization from the DHBs, so they charge the DHBs for the products used. You have to keep in mind though, the blood service isn't allowed to make a profit (or a loss) from all this. So it's a very fine line that they walk. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
purplecatfish Posted April 2, 2012 Report Share Posted April 2, 2012 Is there ever any likelihood that those of us who were in UK during mad cow disease I'm in the same boat. I vaguely remember one of the victims had been a vegetarian for about 20 yrs so I expect we won'y be able to give for at least another 5 yrs. Then if they do decide to allow us, it may only be for certain blood components. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Squirt Posted April 3, 2012 Author Report Share Posted April 3, 2012 Interesting. Doesn't matter as long as it helps someone. I seem to have an itchy chest/lungs. Is this a sign of the flu? No sore throat or runny nose. Maybe something preliminary though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Squirt Posted April 3, 2012 Author Report Share Posted April 3, 2012 :bounce: any doctors here ? Either wise I'll see how I feel tomorrow (I don't feel sick, but I don't want someone who is sick getting more sick (if that makes sense?)) and ask the donor people. But would they test for a cold? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sophia Posted April 3, 2012 Report Share Posted April 3, 2012 Go see them, tell them how you feel and then let them decide - itchy chest/breathing could be due to a number of reasons Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Squirt Posted April 3, 2012 Author Report Share Posted April 3, 2012 Okay, it may be asthma, I used to have asthma pretty bad when I was little, and still have allergies... We shall see! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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