I am truly honored. I hope every blood donation I gave was able to help save a life. I always wonder about how the recipients are doing, and what circumstances led them to need a life saving blood transfusion. The blood bank keeps all of that private for security reasons, of course, along with the name of the donors who donate. I just hope it all helped.
That’s interesting. I didn’t know they had an option to send a gift to a hospitalized child, instead of being given an award. Maybe they do both and they just don’t coordinate it with blood donor awards. I know our local blood banks do a lot for the hospitals.
They also have rules for needle sticks, too. Someone in Ireland ran up to me on the street near the Liffey River, and stuck me in the right upper arm with a sharp. Apparently, gangs of locals try to scare away tourists and travelers who stay too long in their country. I was under a government protection act there, and had to stay longer than a normal passport allows. Anyway, the local hospital did a lot of blood draws on me later to make sure everything was normal. After I returned to America, I read the literature for deferrals on blood donation. They say you have to wait several months after being stuck, or accidentally stuck, with a sharp.
WTF, we have gangs here in Sweden (as you probably have heard), and they are horrible, they build bombs, blow up houses and shoot people, but it is mainly aimed at rival gangs, I have never heard about using needles to attack others, much less outsiders.
And them wanting tourists not to stay too long, do they have a list of how long you have stayed in Ireland?
So many questions…
https://www.thejournal.ie/arson-attacks-fire-asylum-seeker-accommodation-6252984-Feb2024/
I’m still looking for the article that talked about the local protests against immigrants and refugee seekers. Early this year, the locals set a female refugee seeker on fire in the street, in Dublin. Perhaps one of the locals thought I was a Ukrainian refugee when he stuck me with a needle. I’m pale, but I’m actually most of a mix of Scottish and Irish, though. Maybe It was personal. I shave my head. Maybe he hated shaved heads?