big mervyn wrote: ↑Tue Mar 12, 2024 11:18 pmI'm on about 200. Can't recall the refreshments for No 1.Cap'n Grumpy wrote: ↑Tue Mar 12, 2024 10:37 pmSPOILER ALERTbig mervyn wrote: ↑Sun Nov 19, 2023 12:14 pm My wife is always complaining that I'm tight with money so yesterday, to surprise her, I treated her to afternoon tea.
It was very exciting as she had never given blood before ...
First time donors get a cold drink. (at least they did when I gave my first pint back in 1977)
All different in Ireland back in the day - tea, coffee or Guinness
https://www.rte.ie/archives/2020/0402/1 ... lood-bank/
Fair play to ya - I presume (perhaps wrongly) that you donate platelets or plasma or such like much more frequently than the usual 2-3 times per year, to have that many donations? Either that or yer nearly 100 years old and lie about yer age???
Or perhaps you just donate other people's blood?
Did ya get yer wee BTS Vase for 100 donations? (Im not sure they give anything else for more than that as even 100 is very rare).
They pulled the plug on me at 127 donations because I was diagnosed (wrongly as it happened) with an ailment that barred me from donating. Even though it turned out to be wrong, they still wouldn't take my blood once the diagnosis was on my record - I suppose . . . just in case....?
I had also given countless "uncounted" donations as my blood had some rare antibody they used for tissue typing way back in the day or for "control" blood for certain tests, (neither of which is required these days with improved methedology) but those were mostly about 50-200ml at a time, so barely even a handful (by Tony Hancock's reckoning).