Giving blood is a nice way to indirectly (or directly) save somebody's life, especially for those of us not blessed with Superman's body, Wonder Woman's lasso or any dodgy nuclear facilities in the vicinity.
It turns out that the Medical Advisory Board says anyone on anti-TNF cannot give blood. The reasons are, I'm sure, valid. A fellow NASS member pointed out to me that anti-TNF suppresses an immune condition and so blood donation may cause a flare up, while immunosuppression can mask the body's normal response to some
infectious and inflammatory conditions, so diseases
that may be transmitted by donation could be missed by the Blood
Services. I also know that the medication can affect specific white blood cell production, which might not be great for the donator or the receiver of the blood.
I know all that, but I can't pretend that I'm not a little (okay, a lot) disappointed. Guess I'll have to go back to antagonising spiders again in the hope that a radioactive one happens to bite me and give me awesome musculature and a cool unitard.
Everyone else: please do something amazing on my behalf!
http://www.blood.co.uk/
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