Yesssss!!!!!!!

[vera_j]

I am back at work after my 62nd blood donation!!!! This was the last day of the old year when they accepted the regular donors. I called there and asked if I could join the invited people. Haha, with my rare blood, they said yes at once! So I am very happy again, feeling useful and slightly heroic ( silly, SILLY!!!!), I had one cup of coffee there and a nice chat with the ladies there. Here, a mug of tea, and at home, I will have one or two glasses of red wine and chocolate!!!
I am so glad I could close this year 2008 just like that. I am also happy I am still healthy enough to go on. There is nothing like health and I would like to wish you all GOOD HEALTH in the new year now!

Comments

[quarryquest.livejournal.com]

So if you are a rare blood group which one are you? I have just given someone a lesson on them to explain what rhesus factor is.

[vjezkova.livejournal.com]

I am A1B Rh negative. I have been on telephone once and once they even picked me from work.

[quarryquest.livejournal.com]

Wow, that is rare! You even got a number in there. Not heard of that one before!

[vjezkova.livejournal.com]

I inherited it from my dad.

[linda-joyce.livejournal.com]

Congratulations and well done. Good health to you and yours in the New Year as well.

[vjezkova.livejournal.com]

Thank you! :-)

[glitterboy1.livejournal.com]

Not silly at all - it really is useful! Go you!

And good health in the New Year to you, too - health, happiness and good things.

[vjezkova.livejournal.com]

Thank you!!! :-)

[reapermum.livejournal.com]

feeling useful and slightly heroic

That is a perfectly sound thing to feel and not silly at all. There are people who just won't go. Well done for going so regularly.

[vjezkova.livejournal.com]

Thank you - this encouragement means a lot to me!!!

[entropy-house.livejournal.com]

*hugs* Definitely you are a hero. I think all blood donors should at least get a sticker to put on their shirt on the way home stating that fact.

[vjezkova.livejournal.com]

Ah, thank you! About a sticker - I actually don´t neet it, I always keet grinning on my way to work...haha, now that I think better of it, the sticker would probably designate anything else, if you do not a reason WHY I am grinning! :-):-)

[reapermum.livejournal.com]

You get badges and commemorative gifts for milestone donations in the UK.

[vjezkova.livejournal.com]

Actually I do own three ...medals? - yes, it is a bronze, silver and gold medal but you wear only a ribbon...um...no one wears it here, at least I haven´t seen anyöne. Donation is not considered anything so special here.And if I wore it, no one would know the meaning of it anyway. Our society is quite backwards in this field. I am ashamed but in more fields, like charity, dealing with disabled and so...

[reapermum.livejournal.com]

Ours are neat little enamelled badges to wear on your lapel. Because they are so small (about 1cm) and discrete a lot of people here do wear them.