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Booked in for blood donation on Monday. Lifeblood texted me and were basically like "yo, heard you got that A+ blood, which we need. Gimme and we'll give you snacks" which works on me.
Pretty sure I'm O+, I've got that basic blood. But I got blacklisted when I was younger from donating, first time I went in I managed to get knocked out and go into full convulsions (unfortunately was there with my mum and it traumatised her for a bit afterwards ๐ ). Few weeks later I got a letter basically telling me thank you for coming but please don't come again.
That's a safety issue for sure - better to keep you safe than have something worse than convulsions happen when you give blood!!! You are your number one priority and I wouldn't ask someone to give blood if they have issues with it (even being squeamish can lead to fainting)
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In my defence, I felt fine ๐ It's just I have a memory gap where one minute I was sitting up, and the next I was staring at the roof with Mum panicking nearby. So don't know what happened but it just didn't go well.
I've had to do blood tests since then and they generally go okay as long as they can find a vein, but haven't donated since that happened.