Hooray. I'm Clean. Wait that doesn't sound good, does it?

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I just found out today that I have never had a blood transfusion, even though I thought I had which means I can give my blood today.

YAAAAAAAYYYYYY!

I am soooo glad that I can keep giving blood because it also means I can stay on the Bone Marrow register.

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That is all.

What made you think you had received a transfusion?

Yeah I guess I should of explained myself a bit more, shouldn’t I?

When I was little, around 10 I think I had had a tonsilectomy (sp?) and relapsed soon after if that makes sense. Just spewing up blood. By the time I had got to the hospital I had passed out and the last thing my mother could remember before joining me was they were trying to get a line in me but couldn’t get a vein. I still have a scar on my hand where they tried. Since then we just assumed I had been given a transfusion.

Now to present day. I want to give blood but the UK have now adopted the US’s stance that anyone who has had a transfusion since 1980 cannot donate out of risk of transmitting variant CJD.

So I asked, they answered, I yippee-ed. :smiley:

takes breath

Just for the record. Have given blood. Feel hyper. Feel happy. :slight_smile:

Bounce, bounce, bounce, bounce… :smiley: