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

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [May 14, 2004, 12:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hooray-im-clean-wait-that-doesnt-sound-good-does-it/245101 "2004-05-14T12:31:43Z")\
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**Author:** ![nocturnal\_tick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/3d9bf3/32.png) [@nocturnal\_tick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nocturnal_tick)\
**Post date:** [May 14, 2004, 12:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hooray-im-clean-wait-that-doesnt-sound-good-does-it/245101/1 "2004-05-14T12:31:43Z")

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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.

🙂

That is all.

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**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\
**Post date:** [May 14, 2004, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hooray-im-clean-wait-that-doesnt-sound-good-does-it/245101/2 "2004-05-14T12:59:16Z")

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What made you think you had received a transfusion?

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**Author:** ![nocturnal\_tick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/3d9bf3/32.png) [@nocturnal\_tick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nocturnal_tick)\
**Post date:** [May 14, 2004, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hooray-im-clean-wait-that-doesnt-sound-good-does-it/245101/3 "2004-05-14T13:05:22Z")

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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_

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**Author:** ![nocturnal\_tick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/3d9bf3/32.png) [@nocturnal\_tick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nocturnal_tick)\
**Post date:** [May 14, 2004, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hooray-im-clean-wait-that-doesnt-sound-good-does-it/245101/4 "2004-05-14T19:13:28Z")

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Just for the record. Have given blood. Feel hyper. Feel happy. 🙂

Bounce, bounce, bounce, bounce… 😃