does anyone else manage to fit in giving blood as well as being a working LP?

[Meglet]

I'm in a huge sulk this morning . After a 8yr break I was meant to be giving blood today (don't work mondays) but the DC's have raised hell all weekend and I'm worn out and IBS is playing up so I'm going to cancel todays apt . This has been 4yrs of re-scheduled appointments now, something always comes up, either I'm ill or they're ill.

Whenever try and do something good for me life always gets in the way .

I try to get to sessions on my afternoon off but, if I can't manage it, I take my children with me and have done since they were toddlers. They take a book or a quiet game such as Top Trumps. They like the fact that they get squash and a packet of crisps at the end and I think it's good for them to grow up learning what a good thing it is to give blood. I'm hoping they'll start when they're old enough.

7yo DS would love to go along actually. He had to have a blood test last year so would find it interesting.

5yo DD, let's just say sitting still and doing as she's told isn't currently on her 'to do' list.

Anyway, I've rescheduled for May, but will see if I can get a cancellation / walk in apt the next time they're here.

Oh yes. It has always been a difficult thing from the time (probably before I was a lone parent) when I took toddler DS on my bike and they wouldn't let me because I didn't have a buggy to put him in to trying to turning up, carrying buggy upstairs and finding they are fully booked! I have tried with the booking of appointments in the hope of going on the way home from picking DC up from childcare but hard to know exactly what time I'll make it as sometimes finish work earlier or later.

I forgot about the biscuits and squash, I can't stand them myself nor will I drink the tea so end up feeling a bit awkward while DC trying to scoff as many biscuits as possible!

I'd love a drop in session I could pop out to from work... They only ever sent me local to home stuff when I was on the mailing list, actually not local for my timings.