Poll: Blood Doning

[Kreett]

No you cannot. There are not enough benefits for me to go do it in Sweden. All I get is like... 40 sek and a coupon for a free sandwich, plus we have quite a lot of blood here, I think it is only 0-blood that we lack.

Then again I am a universal vampire (AB-) that only thinks of himself.

I get a free sammich? To the hospital!

 

[Aidinthel]

I get a free sammich? To the hospital!

I assume it's a universal characteristic of blood donation clinics that they offer as many free snacks as you want. The cookies are my favorite part of giving blood; I always stuff my pockets afterward.

 

[SilentCom]

It is donating not doning, also I won't because I've graduated and don't really want to go out of my way to donate blood. I'm pretty sure they aren't short on blood or donations.

 

[dave1004]

I have O- blood, but I don't know if they will let me donate. I weigh about 106 pounds, and they tend to have weight limits. If I can, I will, but I live about 80-90 miles from the nearest hospital, so...Yeah.

 

[demoman_chaos]

Nope, I prefer to keep the red stuff on the inside if at all possible.
Unless I score a sweet Transfomers band-aid, that might be worth it.

 

[Jessabi]

I'm a blood and organ donor already, althought it's probably time for me to give blood again.

 

[Agayek]

I probably should soon, and I've done it before. I'm big enough that I can give 3-4 pints of blood and not notice. Problem is, I've no idea where the donor clinics are and I just don't care enough to find them.

 

[tigermilk]

So any chance I can convince anyone on here to go blood doning soon? Regardless of country donor levels are pretty low at the moment and it's becoming a pretty bad issue.

I donate three pints a year. So no you can't convince me to give blood for about two and a half months.

Great thread though, hopefully it encourages more people to help.

 

[Pikeperch]

I just started giving blood recently; I did my first time about seven weeks ago. They have a bus that comes up to the university where I work, so it's really convenient. The free sandwiches and snacks afterwards don't hurt, and then you also get either a glass or mug, or you can just put in a donation to cancer research or similar.

 

[KingHodor]

Sorry, no. There's too many rumours of selling blood in Serbia and I don't trust our health care system at all, I've been sick several times and they're ridiculously incompetent on every imaginable level and don't give two shits about any patient.

Selling surplus blood is a common practice among blood banks pretty much every where, and I honestly don't see the problem - blood can't be stored "for a rainy day" forever, and I don't have a problem with the notoriously underfunded healthcare system making a bit of money. Plus, whoever is actually buying all the blood is probably going to use it for some sort of medicinal purpose (granted, after watching "A Serbian Film", I would trust the Serbian authorities to use that blood for the opening scene in their snuff porno version of "Blade" )

Edit: Gave blood three times and would very much like to do it again, can't though because I currently have to take a number of meds for a chronic condition.

 

[Vrach]

Sorry, no. There's too many rumours of selling blood in Serbia and I don't trust our health care system at all, I've been sick several times and they're ridiculously incompetent on every imaginable level and don't give two shits about any patient.

Selling surplus blood is a common practice among blood banks pretty much every where, and I honestly don't see the problem - blood can't be stored "for a rainy day" forever, and I don't have a problem with the notoriously underfunded healthcare system making a bit of money. Plus, whoever is actually buying all the blood is probably going to use it for some sort of medicinal purpose (granted, after watching "A Serbian Film", I would trust the Serbian authorities to use that blood for the opening scene in their snuff porno version of "Blade" )

Nah, what I mean is the illegal selling of blood when there's people in need of it. But I'm not so fussed about that as much as I am about the utter incompetence of our health system as a whole. I could tell you stories, but let's just sum it up with a simple "they're an incompetent bunch of fuckwits" and leave it at that.

 

[AdmiralMemo]

I do on an occasional basis, though I haven't recently. I don't have any specific plans to do so in the near future (depending on how you define "near") but I might.

 

[Odbarc]

Isn't O the most common blood type? How are you low on that? Unless hospitals just give people O if they don't know what blood to give them.

O- is what all hospitals keep ready as much as they can. An O- person can only receive O-, and O- is the only thing that can be safely given when blood is needed too quickly to type (for example, incoming ER patient with massive trama and blood loss)

Why can't they just vacuum up their bled out blood and put that back in them? It's theirs. Perfect match.

 

[TehCookie]

I can't be arsed to go to them. During high school I gave blood whenever they came. For some reason they don't seem to go to colleges so I haven't given any. If I saw them set up somewhere I would though.

 

[Commissar Sae]

I have absolutely no problem with needles and would willingly give blood but they won't take it. I have a blood born disease that while severely unlikely to be passed on to other people (as its a genetic anomaly rather than an infection or outside disease) they still don't want to risk it as its pretty rare and they don't know much about it.

 

[Lilani]

I donated just a few weeks ago. I'm pretty sure I'll become available to donate again sometime during Christmas break, but I'll be at home then and there's no blood donation center there. So it'll be mid/late January before I give again.

 

[Al-Bundy-da-G]

I keep getting the letter through asking me to go and donate again.
But every time I get it, I've been ill within the previous two weeks, so I can't go >.>

-snip-
here are not enough benefits for me to go do it in Sweden. All I get is like... 40 sek and a coupon for a free sandwich-snip-

More than we get in the UK.
Wish we got payed for it >.>

Don't feel bad only people with O blood type or those donating plasma get paid in America. 50 USD a pint. It's how I could afford Skyrim so close to Christmas.

I literally paid for Skyrim with my blood. I think I may have a problem.

 

[SenseOfTumour]

All this talk of selling blood on, it's quiet weird, however, maybe in the US, until they really get the healthcare thing sorted, you could have a e-card, and be credited each time you donate a pint of blood, and then, if you end up needing surgery, or other healthcare, you can have the cost of the blood taken off it.

I'm sure the cost of a pint of blood is more than the average wage, so it'd be a win win.


I KNOW it should be done for the simple reasons of helping other people, but austerity breeds selfishness, and any perks to nudge people into doing the right thing should be encouraged.

As for 'there's enough blood going around' I've heard of road accidents where someone's needed over 80 pints of blood to get from critical to stable. God knows what happened to the guy, but he must have been leaking like a damn sieve.