This think this is so totally and completly wrong?

[OhDoAdmitMrsDeVere]

Its that time of year again.
I usually try and grab your attention with some wittily provocative AIBU thread title.
I just cant be arsed tonight.

I want you to give blood.
I want you to register to be a bone marrow donor.
I would even quite like you to sponser me for my 10k run.

But you know what?

I just want her back.

This time 6 years ago I was watching her die. She died on 27th April 2006 aged 14 years.

A life so full of promise.
Such a clever, beautiful child.
My daughter.

She has two brothers she has never met. She has one brother that couldnt bear to live in the house she lived and died in and has now moved out. She has a little brother whose autistic brain cannot make sense of her leaving but cannot allow him to stop wondering where she is.

I miss her. She should be here.

I should be telling her to get on with her essays and stop spending her money on nightclubs.

I spent an hour and half in boots today scanning photos of her onto disc because we didnt even have a digital camera when she was alive.
I will spend tomorrow in her little memorial garden at the front of our house. Tidying it and replanting.

There is no sense to what happened to her. It makes no sense.

Please give blood
www.blood.co.uk
www.nhsbt.nhs.uk/bonemarrow/
www.justgiving.com/Billiegirl

No one has to say anything.

as i read this the tears are in free fall... running down my face and making my eyes sting... i dont think i can give blood (pernicious anaemia) but maybe someone here can put me right?
MrsD - you are a lady.... so very sorry for your loss and your pain.. I cant imagine how things are for you but Billie must be so very proud of you... Much love x

I'm on the Anthony Nolan Register, my son had a bone marrow transplant 3 years ago after relapsed AML, I am running the Great North Run for them. I love that charity. You are amazing OP. Amazing.

I did the book a blood donor thing and yes of course gave a bit to cancer. My son and I discussed this tonight and we thought that we could do more so in the name of your beautiful Billie we are each going to do an act of random kindness and if everyone did this I'm sure Billie will be looking down and nodding yes.

www.blood.co.uk/can-i-give-blood/who-cant-give-blood/
info re anaemia - still not quite clear re. pernicious anaemia, you'd be better phoning them to ask.

Youarekidding - you're not weird, necessarily, but your blood needs to sink in the blue tube to be considered fit to donate as it is a very crude measure of your haemoglobin levels. It's also quite often wrong but if that's the measure the donor attendants are using then that's what they have to go by. Hemocue testing is better, of course.

Mine sank really fast! :)

Bump for Billie

I live in Wales
As the crow flies I'm 40 miles from Illfracombe (not Wales!!) which is apparently my nearest BD centre. :o

Perhaps Wales has it's own site? I am easily confused!

Sad as always about your dd MrsDVere :(

I am just watching the Secret Garden on tv. She loved that film.

thread they probably do mobile units in your area (what with you living in the back of beyond and all )

I usually give blood in the Sainsbury's car park (in a van, not sat in the actual car park).

I dont live in the sticks btw but in a very crowded part of east london.

I am so sorry.

I donate blood, am in between donations at the moment, i'm also an organ and marrow donor. I can't be very compatible though for the marrow donation, i've been on 8 years now and never been called.

I also can't give either as had a blood transfusion myself so just have immense gratitude to those that do. However, I can send DH off again, he does it enough for both of us. He wanted to give bone marrow and I kind of put him off. That was a selfish and stupid thing to do. I will wrap him up and deliver him to a centre PDQ. Sorry for your loss doesn't quite cut it does it, but I am. The fact that you are still here means you are as strong as a lioness.