On 17/05/2021 11:19, Allan wrote:
On 16/05/2021 14:00, 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 have been donating whole blood since about 1983 (I recently went
through the process to check for platelet donation, but I didn't have
enough of them)Â* and am now a little shy of 100 donations.

Over the years, the blood donation service have increased testing (to
cover S America disease etc) because otherwise they'd have no donors
left because people travel more widely (well, they did before the C* word).

I have to travel a bit further as the donor service stopped coming to my
village/town but that's fine as I usually tie it in with some other
errands elsewhere.Â* Equally, they only came to the local village hall
twice a year, and it was often not a convenient day for me, and I donate
4 times a year, so finding a donor centre around that schedule means
moving around a bit.Â* The permanent donor centres work best for me as
they tend to have apointments available most days: driving a bit further
for the permanent donor centre works for me if it fits my schedule.

Here's the current colour bands/listing:
https://www.blood.co.uk/the-donation...nising-donors/

I assume the 1000th isn't for whole blood donation...

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Max Demian