Comments on: Bloodsport: My adventures donating the red stuff http://blog.paxholley.net/2008/07/30/bloodsport-my-adventures-donating-the-red-stuff/ All Pax. All Nude. All the Time. Sat, 11 Feb 2012 19:06:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Barney http://blog.paxholley.net/2008/07/30/bloodsport-my-adventures-donating-the-red-stuff/#comment-24826 Fri, 13 Aug 2010 21:21:07 +0000 http://paxholley.wordpress.com/?p=415#comment-24826 Well I’ll just chip in with two cheeky points, if I may.
Firstly if, as you say, you lost a whopping 75% of your total blood, then (assuming most of it was replaced by transfused blood) you most certainly haven’t repaid your blood debt! As I’m sure you know the human body holds about 8-10 pints of blood (or 5 pints of blood and 5 of vodka, on occasion), so you’ve donated back two of the 6 or so pints you needed.

Secondly, I had the exact same experience as you the other day. I’m 18 and gave blood for the first time. I hated every bit of it, and it made me feel sick throughout. But (and this is where you have the previous experience) imagine if everybody shied away from doing it just because it’s nasty! No blood for transfusions = millions of needless deaths every year! I sympathise entirely with you – it was a horrible procedure – but the security of knowing it will be there for you when you need blood more than outweighs the small sacrifice.

]]> By: Paxton http://blog.paxholley.net/2008/07/30/bloodsport-my-adventures-donating-the-red-stuff/#comment-23089 Sat, 30 Jan 2010 15:06:20 +0000 http://paxholley.wordpress.com/?p=415#comment-23089 Hmmm, I’m not even sure I’ve heard of the Kmelon browser. I don’t actually administer my theme, it’s by WordPress. I can alter the CSS, but that just changes the colors.

]]> By: Mara Salinas http://blog.paxholley.net/2008/07/30/bloodsport-my-adventures-donating-the-red-stuff/#comment-23088 Sat, 30 Jan 2010 14:04:18 +0000 http://paxholley.wordpress.com/?p=415#comment-23088 Very informative text. I’ve found your blog via Google and I’m really happy about the information you provide in your articles. Btw your sites layout is really messed up on the Kmelon browser. Would be great if you could fix that. Anyhow keep up the great work!

]]> By: Wrecking someone else’s journal « Cavalcade of Awesome http://blog.paxholley.net/2008/07/30/bloodsport-my-adventures-donating-the-red-stuff/#comment-18276 Fri, 19 Sep 2008 15:35:07 +0000 http://paxholley.wordpress.com/?p=415#comment-18276 [...] a call this morning. They want me to give blood again. It’s like they don’t even care what happened to me last time I gave blood. Needless to say I’m somewhat terrified to go back. We’ll see if I feel any better [...]

]]> By: Mike Lehman http://blog.paxholley.net/2008/07/30/bloodsport-my-adventures-donating-the-red-stuff/#comment-18184 Mon, 25 Aug 2008 00:16:02 +0000 http://paxholley.wordpress.com/?p=415#comment-18184 Wimp.

But seriously, congratulations on finally doing what most teenagers do to get out of a test.

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