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rant about the blood transfusion service
sleeplessparadise:
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Besides which, none of this excuses the frankly poor attitude of 'your messing us about' simply because I haven't been able to donate yet, followed by a subsequent removal from the register - who on earth is that encouraging people?? And what is so difficult or unreasonable about doing late night sessions or at a weekend??
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I agree it doesnt excuse their poor attitude although I have never heard of anyone being taken off the register before. But as to why not have late night sessions or weekend sessions........ well I may be wrong but I think a lot of the people who do this are volunteers.......... so maybe they just cannot get volunteers to work nights or weekends? As I said I could be wrong and maybe these people do get paid to collect blood :?
screwy:
Really they should get the Tax Man to run it, hes good at getting the last drop out of us.... :twisted: :twisted:
strapping young lad:
the BTS should just park up outside a pub on a saturday night and just wait ;)
the people i donated to worked for the NHS as they had NHS name badges on im sure of it
if you were a volunteer i think it would be stated wouldnt it (i think though the tea and buscuit part may be voluntary though)
The Ant Hill Mob:
This will stir up this can of worms even more.....one of my friends actually works as a haemotologist for the Blood service. He's always going on about how much blood actually gets thrown away. During the floods a lot of the blood was chucked, as they couldn't get it to the hospital before it's expiry date. Some blood products can be frozen, but not all of it, it needs to be fresh. So no matter how many people donate, there's always going to be a limited supply. So if everyone went and donated on the same day (assuming they could fit everyone in!), we'd be out of blood in a week.
I work in an office, and every 3 or 4 months the blood bus comes to our office to collect anyone that wants to donate, but we still have to take the hour off.
Once I've got rid of my pesky ME, I will be back to donating regularly, as donated blood kept RRB's dad going for a few weeks longer, so a huge thanks to those that donated in the past.
sleeplessparadise:
--- Quote from: "The Ant Hill Mob" ---Once I've got rid of my pesky ME, I will be back to donating regularly, as donated blood kept RRB's dad going for a few weeks longer, so a huge thanks to those that donated in the past.
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And that's why it's important to me, my mum six years ago and my uncle last year died of cancer but needed blood which gave me a few weeks extra with them........ thanks to all of you that do donate I will keep donating till they stop me now :D
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