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Nov 2019
7:34pm, 13 Nov 2019
30,861 posts
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LindsD
No Tuc? Shocking
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Nov 2019
7:39pm, 13 Nov 2019
18,275 posts
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Dvorak
I never timed any of my very few visits, but i think I may have taken 15-20 minutes to fill a bag. (Last time was a bit quicker).
Up to maybe ninety minutes from arriving and joining the queue to finally leaving: is that a bit long?
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Nov 2019
7:57pm, 13 Nov 2019
307 posts
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Peregrinator
My impression is that they've worked on decreasing the donation times: end-to-end was shown as 60 mins and I would've been out in about 30 mins without all the chat after about times (!)
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Nov 2019
9:43pm, 13 Nov 2019
3,293 posts
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Fizz :-)
New records today, both of them bad! Due to them being short-staffed, the process took two hours. And my actual donation time was 9:02,the slowest since I started asking a year or so ago.
One good thing, two weeks of iron tablets (and a cowful of red meat) brought my iron levels up from defect at 124 last time, to super-duper “as high as a man’s” 150 this time 
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Nov 2019
9:44pm, 13 Nov 2019
3,294 posts
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Fizz :-)
No coffee though, as it was in a Church of Latter Day Saints and caffeine isn’t allowed.
And no TUC either
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Nov 2019
8:39am, 14 Nov 2019
33,201 posts
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HappyG(rrr)
Good Iron Fizz. Sorry for bad experience / time though.
Dv, at Laurison Place (Scot Blood HQ) I can be in and out in under 30 mins. I'm a 5 min donor, plus 5-10 mins for sign in, 5-10 mins for the nurse person to do pin prick blood test, 5 -10 mins to wait for a bed, 5 mins for biscuit n juice. Could be as little as 20-25 mins, sometimes 45? Not much of my time to give to save a life blah, blah! 
December planned donation for me. Might take my son and his gf as they have expressed an interest! G
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Nov 2019
7:50pm, 14 Nov 2019
6,197 posts
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sallykate
Fizz, I take iron tablets for a week or two before donating - as a veggie mine can be borderline but I’ve only been rejected once in the last few years.
Good work G!
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Nov 2019
9:09pm, 15 Nov 2019
10,635 posts
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NDWDave
Is Neilio a watcher of this thread? Kudos to him...
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Nov 2019
9:59pm, 15 Nov 2019
30,932 posts
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LindsD
Wow
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Nov 2019
11:33pm, 15 Nov 2019
312 posts
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Peregrinator
That's an impressive and sustained commitment of time and effort. Truly gold blooded.
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