Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - Megan Donated Plasma Yesterday

Episode Date: May 28, 2026

Megan tells us why she donates blood and tells us about taking her dad with her when she donated plasma See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Rown out the rulebook. You said the government's not giving you anything in their budget, but we are. That doesn't seem like it, right? Yeah, so every hour, $50 to give away is part of the $50,000 giveaway that we're doing at the moment. Your next chance, 8 o'clock this morning. Just happened to be that Blood Donner Week is coming up where they're just like looking for people to give blood and plasma. You're a big backer, aren't you? Yeah, just because my dad had an accident when he was really young and he required a lot of blood.

his whole life he's donated blood here in Australia like 70 times and he wanted to get to the 100 club and he he can't donate anymore so I'm like I'm gonna take over you're gonna take over the century and I'm gonna try and get to the hundred club um but I what are you sitting on at the moment well not many I've just I've just kind of started um because he's just stopped so I but you're with plasma the good thing about it the pepper's blood is still being donated though that's good Sorry, the seller's blood. Thank you. But with plasma, you can donate every two weeks,

whereas with blood, it's every three months. And he's never seen the plasma donations before. So I took him along. It's a fancy machine. I hope this isn't too gory, but it takes the blood, it splits it. So you can see it working, and then it takes the, like, clear plasma

and pumps the blood back in. Really? Yeah. Wow. That's amazing. And then so your plasma just regenerates. Yeah. Over how long?

I don't know. She's like, I'm just sitting there getting that drain for you. He's like two weeks you can do it again, so it must be pretty quick. Yeah, right. So I took Dad along and, oh, he, man, the nurses have got stuff to do. What are they called the phlebotomists? They're busy. And he's...

I tell you who doesn't have stuff to do, retired boomers. I know. He donated blood 70 times. Oh, yeah. And want to tell people about it? Want to tell multiple nurses. I can see they're turning. their body to be like, I've got to go over here now.

And dad is just yarning. He's like, I did it here. I did it in Australia. He was like, I did it back then. You just did it at the doctor's office. They lined you up. And then, oh, as you left, they gave you a packet of cigarettes to say thank you. At the doctor's office.

That's a wonderful gesture. That is a beautiful gesture, isn't it? Yeah, it was wonderful. I mean, that's an interesting, the times have changed. Full pack of darts for donating blood. Yeah, like more people would have been donating blood or probably these days too. I was like, did the doctor hand those to you?

And he's like, yeah, yeah, yeah. I think they had a deal. You've got a packet of cigarettes. Wow. Good on the doctor. You know, and then, well, maybe just an ongoing business for the doctor too. Yeah. Yeah, I hope we didn't.

If he donated so many times, see many. It's a lot of free cigarettes. Yeah. He has to come back and keep seeing the doctor for other issues. Yeah, but I honestly think as much as they were happy that I donated, I think they were very happy to see the back of us. So, well, well, Was he making you stress out or were you just feeling sorry for the nurses on behalf of your father?

I don't want to put people off, but I did get a bit woozy. I had that cold sweat thing and my ears started to glaze over it. And dad was still yacking to me. And as he's talking, he starts to go blurry. And I just hear, lo, blah, blah, blah. Yeah, like, cool, I've zoned him out. Either I'm reacting to the donation or my body's like, just get rid of it. My body was shutting him out.

It's weird you took the machine home with you as well. Tell you what, when your parents leave because they're doing a wonderful job looking after you at a moment, we can have no content. I know. We can have no content on this radio show. We're providing a lot.