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.
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.
takes breath
Just for the record. Have given blood. Feel hyper. Feel happy.
Bounce, bounce, bounce, bounce…