You can't give blood, then. Nag other people to give.
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I will, Ginger! Damn; I was gearing up to face a personal challenge.
Once my doctor has confirmed that I'm not anemic myself, I will give blood in honor of our hemoglobin-challenged Buffistas.
Oh, that thing I said earlier about how my appetite is about gone? Well, apparently that doesn't count when I'm PMSing. The Army needs to divert some resources to air-drop me a crate of ice cream and Snickers over here. This is a woman on her period who's barely eaten in four days. This is a state of emergency, Mr. President.
The chemo I'm on right now has real potential as a weight-loss drug. Before I started this, the idea that someone could forget to eat struck me as madness.
I lived in the UK for 4 months in 1993.
The rule is an aggregate of 6 months in the UK.
So I'm clean. Urp. Okay. :breathes deep:
It's officially my resolution before NY 2015. There; I said it.
I gave blood a bit over a month ago. Now that I'm unemployed, it's easy to make the local blood drives. Two jobs ago the Red Cross use to set up at one of my org's offices and we could take work time to donate. At my more recent job, so many employees were spending big chunks of time in malarial countries they didn't bother setting up corporate donations. Pity--I gave more when it was the next building over and on the clock.
Dang, you guys have reminded me that I haven't given blood in years. And I don't have a problem doing it, so I have no excuse -- it just slipped my mind. (I even live pretty close to the main blood bank location, so I really have no excuse.) I need to get on that.
I've given blood ... these days I'm taking so much stuff that they really don't want it (I think the blood thinner was the final straw).
I just gave a couple of weeks ago! I'd tried to give blood several times in the spring and couldn't for various reasons (sick, didn't meet the iron level requirement, etc.), but I finally made it through and was able to give. It's something I can do relatively easily, so I try to do it as often as I can.