On 16/05/2021 15:17, charles wrote:
In article ,
Nick Odell wrote:
On Sun, 16 May 2021 14:00:55 +0100, Andrew
wrote:

I found my Blood Transfusion 'wallet' yesterday, it having
fallen down the back of a drawer at some point.

I started in 1984 but gave up round about the millenium when
the daily commute became too arduous to allow much spare time
in the evenings.

Inside it is a plastic gold card like a credit card with my
name embossed, in addition to all the applied stickers at every
donation, but I can't remember how I came by this bit of plastic.

Also curious to know the colour of the name label inside the
front cover, which would have been typed or printed back
in 1984 and manually stuck on. Is the colour significant ?


I'm a retired[1] blood donor. I've just rummaged through my records. I
started in 1980 with a blue book but when I reached 25 donations they
gave me a silver book instead. It looks as if my 25th donation was
around about the time they switched from the books to the credit-card
style plastic because I only have the one entry in that book for
January 1996. I carried on using the silver card until they replaced
it with a gold card on my 50th donation.

Does that help?

Nick
[1]I kept on going to places where they wouldn't take my blood for six
months after I came back, but then I went back to those places again,
rinse and repeat
Now I'm considered too old to start again.

I gave blood from the 1960s until the late 90s when I went on holiday to
somewhere they din't like. Then, on going back, they wanted to know my
ethnic origin. So, I stopped giving.

I'm somewhat similar. After my 47th donation I was told I couldn't
donate any more as in 91 and 92 I'd been to southern South America and
stayed in rural areas. Evidently they were concerned I could be a
carrier of certain diseases (such as Chagas), which they couldn't test
for. So that was that. Somewhere I've got a bronze badge, but no silver
(I wasn't sent one), and of course I was three pints short of a gold
badge. :-(

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Jeff