How to donate blood

Blood Donation in Canada;

1. Make an appointment by calling 1-888-2donate.
2. Sign in and make your next appointment for 56 days from today.
3. Sit with a nurse and verify who you are then get stuck in the finger to get your Cu / Fe level checked.
4. Fill out a questionnaire about your health
   
5. Sit with a second nurse and get your blood-pressure, heart-rate and temperature checked
6. Answer some more personal questions about your history with the nurse
7. Go sit on a really comfortable chair while a nurse cleans your arm and inserts a needle.
8. Wait for 5-10 minutes and talk to the nurses joke have fun.
9. have the nurse remove the needle
10. repeat step 8
11. go have a cookie and juice
12. Go home and have an excuse not to do housework / heavy lifting for 24 hours...
    

It's really easy and the people in the clinic (at least in Guelph) are a lot of fun and really nice. if you are in Guelph you should book an appointment and go. It takes less than an hour.

I give blood about every 56 days.