Gave blood today

[lethargic_man]

Anyone who can give blood^* and doesn't ought to: they're chronically pushed for blood, and if even only 10% of the populace—twice the current number—gave regularly, they'd never be short again.

* I know there are several people reading this that can't.

Comments

[rysmiel.livejournal.com]

Well, there are those of us who live places whose BSE-related paranoia is such that they'll not take blood donations from anyone who's lived in Britain. Not that I'm sure I'd be a sound blood donor at this point anyway, if it were an option I would want to talk to someone about my particular odd cholesterol chemistry and whether blood with that is a sensible thing to be putting into people [ my suspicion is that the answer is generally yes, but not in certain specific cases, and I don't know that donated blood is labelled such as to be sure of keeping it clear of such cases. ]

Besides, they don't appear to give you a free pint of Guinness here when you donate blood. Orange juice just isn't the same thing.

[karen2205]

Yeah, I'd be quite happy to give more blood, but I'm not allowed to at the moment.