Sounds very useful.
I'm a lapsed blood donor, it just takes too long to get my syrupy blood out.

Permission to be smug: granted.
( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Sat 3 Jul 2010, 11:24, 2 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

I'm not allowed to donate blood. :(

(Poppet some assembly required., Sat 3 Jul 2010, 11:32, Reply)

Pourquoi?

( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Sat 3 Jul 2010, 11:36, Reply)

I have very low blood pressure,
*and* australian blood donors aren't allowed to have tattoos younger then a year old, and since I got my first one done in march, it's going to be a while til I'm even allowed to go there to get my blood pressure checked. I've been three times and each time my blood pressure was too low.
(Poppet some assembly required., Sat 3 Jul 2010, 11:47, Reply)

If you had my blood pressure, you'd burst.
If you give blood at all, won't you faint?
( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Sat 3 Jul 2010, 11:58, Reply)

yeah pretty much.
It's low enough that when I get blood tests I get really dizzy.
(Poppet some assembly required., Sat 3 Jul 2010, 12:05, Reply)

I'm quite lucky
in that I think I have the lowest possible blood pressure on the healthy scale. The main problem with me giving blood is my "teeny tiny delicate veins", even though they're clearly visible through the ghastly pallor of my skin.

What's your tattoo of?
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Sat 3 Jul 2010, 12:19, Reply)

aha yeah mine's just under the healthy scale for blood pressure.
always been like that though, not sure why.

It's a bittersweet flower. they're purple and are used to represent "truth". Truth is pretty much my strongest value. hence why I picked that particular flower.
(Poppet some assembly required., Sat 3 Jul 2010, 12:31, Reply)

Just googleimaged them, they're really pretty!
I'm waiting til I get my job to get my first tattoo, and I probably should give blood again before I do so (same in the UK- have to wait a year after tattoos and piercings (or maybe it's 6 months after piercings))
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Sat 3 Jul 2010, 12:39, Reply)

One thing I really love about them is that they're actually poisonous,
which struck me as somewhat ironic when you consider their meaning.
(Poppet some assembly required., Sat 3 Jul 2010, 12:46, Reply)

I've only donated blood once
and when I did, they didn't even give me a certificate or anything.
( mistaspakkaman and the inedible shifting caterpillars, Sat 3 Jul 2010, 12:35, Reply)