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Evening all, if anyone can help me atall to obtain a break band for this model it would be appreciated. Have tried numerous places and people but please feel free to any ideas you may have

How the hell do you manage 3 min!!

Thanks for all your support guys, and to read how so many if you will start donating again or as new donors is great news! Thanks to you all!! Just 1 more person donating is 1 more life saved somewhere.

my wife is terrified of needles but you know what in a years time when her body is back to normal, she will even come with me and donate her first pint of blood after all this too!

many thanks mate and great post! it was to do with her iron levels also but we got there in the end

im just looking at the positives mate, got my little boy... but i didnt know the french were like that!

wow talk about getting on with it safe to say im not having any more children mate and i aint putting my wife and family through that again!

i havent laughed so much in ages and i needed that mate... thats brilliant!

many thanks mate, hate to say it but i think from memory your blood groupmis one of the lowest stocks... the nhs said to me blood group 'o' has 20,500 units available, my blood group is ab positive but yours is even raerer than mine and my blood group has just 2,500 units available in east anglia!

the surgeon said to me if my wfe had a home birth it would of been a different story.... and i know what you mean to the uh ok bit,.. but im learning and getting there i think

like the detail you put in this mate and how spot on you are!!

your a gent and many thanks... oh and the biscuits have improved you get mccoys crisps, penguin bars, lemon and orange squash, cups of tea now and lots more after donating

THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT I WANTED TO HEAR!!! many thoughts went though my mind mate trust me, never seen so much blood, it was the point where my wife was in trouble, but i couldnt do a thing to help... that was horrible.. i used to think what happens to my blood after donating... after this experince now i know... and it makes you feel really good to know that you have helped someone or more so saved someones life too!

i was very close to having councelling. even the midwife who did a home visit recommended it, feel alot better now, but first few nights mate, the dreams, flash backs, just feeling emotional outa the blue... but we got there and im a very happy proud dad... and onwards n upwards now mr collins hey!

couldnt agree more mate, im a die hard footie fan i must say, but wages like you say wind me up, and for pansies that keep falling over and are useless the best of times! these so called model professionals want to start donating there cash sometimes to charites that need it the most!

many thanks guys... and above all im still smiling and all together!

thats what i like about it, something different, looks good though mate!

good for you? whats your blood type? think im one of the rare ones over here but not the rarest... my spelling is awfull by the way

tell me about it mate, like alex said the first half of 2012 has been a little rough, but im still standing and earning a living again and supporting my family! many thanks for your post mate.. how you keeping anyway?

did you design that yourself?

yeah i thought it was strange how Bob Slade knew and sent me a text then after some painfull brain work i knew you had been upto something!

Hi all.. As you may of seen alex_m started a thread congratulating me on with my new baby boy last weekend... I would like to share with you in brief the story and maybe, just may be you may change your mind and donate... just bear that last sentence in mind and read this story and it will become clear. Saturday 26th May at 4.30am my wife wakes me up with bad pains and low and behold shes in labour with my first child. By 6am we are up the Norfolk & Norwich hospital in the birthing unit just waiting... By 9.13am my son , Reece arrives into the world... As many of you dads out there will know, when holding your 1st child is just so wonderfull yet words cant describe how you feel! Now picture the following.... your wife has just given birth to your first child and your a proud dad etc, your emotions are sky high, BUT with in 30min out of the blue your wife/partner just collapses infront of you whilst your holding your new born baby... The nurses and midwife's come rushing in, she goes white as a sheet.. just lifeless.. at this point i did not know what to think.. AND THEN ALL OF A SUDDEN while shes still out cold she loses 4PINTS of blood in 2 minutes! Shes rushed through to an emergency ward, 13 nurses! are doing all they can to help my wife... at this point im still holding by son.... Then you have 4 surgeons come rushing through, there pagers going off etc etc, the nurses cant get no drip lines into my wifes arms, her vains have dropped and is still losing blood slowly.. I hear the worst sentence of my life whilst holding my boy: Her heart is about to stop and she cant breath! At this point words can not describe how i felt as i said to alex at work, and to be honest i dont like talking about it, BUT as i say this could save a life.... The surgeon tells me she is 6min away from an operation to remove her womb as its badly torn and isnt contracting like it should. But out of the blue, 4 HOURS LATER they get her stable and she comes round at 3pm.. i still have my son at this point.... Firstly with out going into detail and i must stress this is a very brief part of the story and what i witnessed, i know how close i was to losing my wife and my little boy not having a mum, but secondly i know we moan about them but the NHS staff that day saved my wife and kept us as a family.. The morale of the story is: after all the blood my wife lost, if it wasnt for generous blood donors the worst may of happened! i myself have been a blood donor for many years and made me realise just how special, and precious blood really is... 6 pints of blood for my wife was there, 3 pints just to get her blood levels to normal, another 3 as a top up as it were.. im sure some of you are blood donors and those that are will know you can only give 3 pints a year and takes roughly 20min each pint to give. my wife lost just over 4 pints in 2 minutes... so basically a year and a bit donation by just 1 person and over an hour of there time helped my wife! so i am asking, please if you can, even if its just once, and you want to do something to help someone please give blood, you never know who, when or why they may need it...

the smaller picture is when he was just 15min old! the bigger picture shows hes settled into his home rather well!!

here's a picture of my new pride and joy...