I started this thread out of curiosity and because my daughter Melissa decided as she just turned 16 to become a blood donor.

She donated blood yesterday at her school,it was an ok experience, she did feel kinda sick during it and pins and needles in her arm, i wonder if that is normal, i do know some people feel faint, however it has not put her off doing it again, they did not tell her what her blood group was though, pity, as i don't know, next time in three months should she decide to donate she gets a free key ring with her blood type on it.

I found something interesting out though, I have the second rarest blood group, only 2 percent people have my type, i am B NEGATIVE, so wondering do you know your's ?i can tell you what percent you are,as i have all the information from the blood centre in front of me.these statistics could be just for NZ though,not sure.