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 ?


Andrew

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.

On 16/05/2021 14:36, Nick Odell wrote:

[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 had the opposite problem I was living in places that wouldn't take my
blood donations because I had lived in the UK during the mad cow era.

I did donate in the UK when I was running a venue that they used. They
were a very impressive logistic operation turning a village hall into a
hospital ward in about 40 minutes and ripping it down even faster.

I stopped giving blood when they made it too difficult. Initially I
could walk over the road to do it. Then I had to drive 4 miles. Now I
would have to make a round trip of 24 miles and pay for parking.
(and they wonder why they are short of donors)

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I did donate in the UK when I was running a venue that they used. They
were a very impressive logistic operation turning a village hall into a
hospital ward in about 40 minutes and ripping it down even faster.

I stopped giving blood when they made it too difficult. Initially I
could walk over the road to do it. Then I had to drive 4 miles. Now I
would have to make a round trip of 24 miles and pay for parking.
(and they wonder why they are short of donors)


A lapsed donator.

I started off with a small blue book (about credit card size when
closed), then moved onto the coloured cards as I passed 25 and then 50
donations.

They used to come into work to take donations, and work were happy to
host them, and allow us the time to make the donation. Then the
transfusion service decided to stop coming (rumour has it down to cost
cutting, we had more people wanting to donate than they could
accommodate). Since then, it has been a long round trip to the nearest
centre, and no doubt having to pay to park there as well, so I haven't
donated recently.

Hmm, I've just been looking for my card and book), and I can't find
them, so no idea what the inside colour was.
..
Adrian
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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.

--
from KT24 in Surrey, England
"I'd rather die of exhaustion than die of boredom" Thomas Carlyle

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. :-(

--

Jeff

On 16/05/2021 16:44, Jeff Layman wrote:
On 16/05/2021 15:17, charles wrote:
In article ,
Â*Â*Â* 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. :-(


Yes I had that issue on the early 90s after travelling in South America.
There was scare about Chagas disease (trypanosomonas cruzi - may not
have got the spelling right). This is a blood borne parasite that a bug
that lives in mud huts in rural S America transmits. You can live with
it for a few years while it makes holes in your heart muscle or
something.

Tooting BTS gave me the same brush off but about 18 months later they
sent out new letters saying they now had a new analyser to test
donors who might be affected so we could rejoin.

On 16/05/2021 14:36, 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?

Just curious to know what the colour of the name label is inside the
cover of the blue booklet, and if this is significant ?

Someone told me Yellow means something.

"Andrew" wrote in message
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On 16/05/2021 14:36, 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?

Just curious to know what the colour of the name label is inside the
cover of the blue booklet, and if this is significant ?

Someone told me Yellow means something.

That you are a jew.

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 ?


Andrew

My booklet has a yellow name label inside the front cover, stuck on top
of another yellow label - change of address I guess. The credit cards
stopped being used a good few years ago, it's all online now.

I started in '74 and made my 71st donation last week. I had many years
when travel and work made it impossible, but I hope to make the ton so I
can get my "I'm a little bleeder" badge.

My blood must be very good because they always mark the paperwork A+.

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Cheers
Clive

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) 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. 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. 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/

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