Farewell, Dragonbones! 💔

No need for that haha, the real gift was doing hopefully something for dragon, or someone else depending on type. I think the sick feeling, however, will be the gift that keeps on giving tonight.

But we made it. The lady who took the blood did a good job of trying to get me to focus on anything else and stop squirming which were largely to no avail but props for trying :rofl:

Fucking miserable experience, still don’t know my blood type, but I think they said I’ll get a report in a week. Idk. I didn’t really understand much after I got seated as I was freaking out too much to really be able to :joy::joy: that must’ve been the longest 10 min give or take a few I’ve had in a very long time.

go donate folks if my bitch ass can do it so can u. Unless u habe HIV in which case I would recommend u don’t.

Now if you’ll excuse me, I just got a mental image is the blood flowing down the tube and need to go and once again empty my stomach into the toilet​:sunglasses::sunglasses:

Some actually important things:

They seemed interested that I lived in Austria, probably related to mad cow? But that was more recent so I suppose that got me through that hoop.

I do believe the org I got blood drawn at is legit because it apparently is associated with the hospital right across road. It’s here for any other Taichungians (Taichungers?) Interested

For 1et time I think they limit to 250ml which is merciful, if I had to do a 500 it would’ve been agony, and they said I could come back in 2 months to give more. While I like the idea of that from a human well-being perspective my current brain thinks that if it’s a choice between getting put on those tubes and dying I’d rather the latter.

Might want to take someone to arrange transportation back home. I ended up going to a Starbucks and drinking some awful sugary shit to slowly recover from the dizziness which for me lasted like two hours, the first 10-15 min of which was seriously not fun. Rode home after but that wasn’t fun and I do not recommend it

Yeah that’s about it. Fuck.

How about a haircut? :wink:

U sound like my mother :slight_smile:

It looks particularly bad in that one because I spent the last 20min running my hands through it out of stress but probably never great. Idk I wanted t try growing it out, we’ll see how it goes :smiley:

We’re probably the same age. :grandpa:

Take care of your health, if you get sick you’re not going to be happy :slight_smile:

Congratulations on coming back from the dead! I could barely believe it when I reopened this thread today and saw the news. I think that is almost certainly a Forumosa record. What a miraculous progression from if to not to when. Such timing for you to die so close to your wife’s birthday, and what an unbeatable post-birthday gift you gave her by coming back to life. Although I didn’t know you when you were previously active in this community, it’s awesome to see that you appear to still be all there mentally! Best wishes and the biggest of luck for you in your ongoing battle against lukemia. Fingers and toes crossed that you become a double miracle.
To the poster whose BIL is going through a similar situation, best wishes and luck.

Thanks. :bowing:

What’s going on there, DB? How we doing?

My mom is O negative blood type, but she also has sickle cell anemia making her unsuitable for blood donation. It’s pretty rare for Taiwanese, and nearly cost her her life.

No more updates to this topic makes me a bit worried…

I’m hesitant to bug him on fb. But yeah, he’s in a hell of a fight one way or another.

Best wishes and good thoughts.

It would be terribly, horrendously tragic to have made a miraculous recovery only to slip back under with no return because of the lack of available blood for transfusion.

Speaking of which, sad to report I was O+. So in other words, completely useless to him. If only I were the universal donor, O-.

It does say he was last seen 44 min ago on PFP, so there’s hope there.

I won’t speak for Kent, but he never seemed to be all about himself only. Please continue to donate. Someone out there needs it.

As I mentioned earlier, my bil needs a pint a week. I saw a picture of him in hospital with ALL THE OTHER folks in their wheelchairs waiting for their refill.

Post Covid, there is still a massive need for all blood types. Kent knows that. If you can help, help. He said as much when he was posting.

:pray:

I’m ashamed to admit I used to be scared to give blood. I remember accompanying my then girlfriend to a blood drive in uni, and when they asked if I would donate as well, I said “no, just her” and stood by like a feckless wimp while my brave girl lay down and pulled up her sleeve. It was almost 20 years ago, but I look back at that with embarrassment and a bit of self-loathing. I have a relatively common blood-type (A positive I think), but I’ll talk to my wife about donating soon. Once in a while a blood truck parks outside of Kaohsiung Arena which we live close by to.

Join her and I’ll buy you both a beer! :beers:

I think orange juice is better.

I can do that too!

I’ve actually wanted to donate blood before but I can’t.