Wizard Of Odd wrote:
God I can't believe I was getting worked up about that. It was literally over in seconds. I sat looking the other way, Elliot was sitting on my lap absolutely fascinated, asking questions! Seriously nothing like the blood test I had 13 years ago. I certainly wont be worried next time I have to have one now.
If you were a kid last time you had it done might have seemed more 'scary' at the time. Also, how long it takes depends on how many blood samples they need, sometimes they test for one specific thing or they might need a lot to test for various random shit. What was the blood test for anyway if you don't mind me asking? Ah right, patient confidentiality and that.
The Jackal wrote:
BONGOOOOOOOOOO! wrote:
You know you can still give blood if you like cock, you just don't tell them
Yeah - I mean, presumably the no-gays thing is because of some actually-quite-primitive assumption of "Benders = Disease" (since I'm sure the idea of catching gayness went out in the 50s). Even so, surely they *test* the donated blood before attaching it to poor Timmy with the leukaemia who also just got hit by a train, instead of just taking your word for it when you ticked "No" on the AIDS/Crack-addict/doped-up-on-Xanax list?
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https://secure.blood.co.uk/c11_cant.aspPixi...again wrote:
Then 8-9 months of more scans and biopsies and second opinions because the first hospital was trying to fob me off after finding irregular cells etc with waiting 12 months for a review.
What does that mean 12 months for a review, they would've follwed it up 12 months later? Seems a bit stupid, 12 monts is a long time if you've got cancer, needs to be nipped in the bud quickly.
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