Man required...will need to spit for me..

newcook

ask the landlord at your local pub if you can stick up a poster - even offer to buy donors a pint (its amazing some of the things men will do for beer!!)

pinkmami

I was also on the register & I was called up 10 yrs ago to donate further bloods as a possible match but I found out 2 days previously I was PG so I took my name off the register then.

whitewing

roxydogbert wrote: »

Just signed up now. Though not male or aged 18-30...!

x

Thank you roxydogbert. I'm still counting you as 1 of 10.

This is great news to start the weekend. (Well, still got a day's work to do before the weekend proper, but it's a bank holiday!)

whitewing

newcook wrote: »

ask the landlord at your local pub if you can stick up a poster - even offer to buy donors a pint (its amazing some of the things men will do for beer!!)

A very good idea. I shall put that on my To Do list.

elsien

They have a weight limit as well, the same as for blood donors. I tried to register but they said I was too small. 5 ft 2, 7 stone, and in very good health, but rules is rules apparently.
No one in the work place or school (if DS is still at school?) that you could harrass, or get other parents on board with?

whitewing

Gillyx wrote: »

I would ask my OH, but he's still cross at me for signing up to donate my organs after death.

My DS is on the organ donor list. I registered him when he was about 5.

My DD is on the organ donor list from when she was a tiny baby.

Both, of course, would have the opportunity to deregister when they want to choose for themselves.

It was a little hard to brush aside the 'is it tempting fate?' and I am aware that if the worse did happen I may well feel quite angry that it was brought up, but I hope that we will take into account why we put them on the list in the beginning.

I've been on the list since I was 18.

mudgekin

The reason for the strict criteria for donation is because of a complication called Graft versus Host disease. This is caused by the transplanted marrow recognising the patient own immune system as foreign and trying to reject it.

With an organ transplant the body will try and reject it since it recognises it as a foreign object. For marrow/stem cell transplants, the marrow recognises the body and tries to reject the body.

This can range in severity from a mild rash to the patient loosing all of the skin from the body, the lining of the gut and fulminating liver failure amongst others.

The younger the donor the better since there are less antibodies built up in the donor system. We used to call females over 45 who have had multiple pregnancies "killer donors". This was because the age thing had started..the older, the more antibodies and also complicated by pregnancy, the more pregnancies the more antibodies because of the foetus/mother antibody production.

KittyPryde

My 26 year old BF just signed up to it after I showed him this and was accepted OP. So you can add him to your list. Awaiting a spit kit now lol.

:T

loubie_lou

30 year old non-male signed up :j

clw1

I'm female but I've signed up, thanks for the reminder as I saw it on TV a few months ago but forgot to register.