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Post by Deleted on Jul 16, 2018 1:40:39 GMT
Sorry for being selfish, but nope.
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Post by Vodkie on Jul 16, 2018 1:42:49 GMT
Nope. But I've donated plasma because I needed the money
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Post by Johnny-Come-Lately on Jul 16, 2018 1:43:56 GMT
Have you ever filled out those donor cards?
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Post by someguy on Jul 16, 2018 1:46:45 GMT
I donate plasma twice a week if I am able to.
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Post by Catman 猫的主人 on Jul 16, 2018 1:49:08 GMT
Not allowed to.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 16, 2018 1:53:16 GMT
I wouldn't have been a decade or two ago, but I think I might be OK now. |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 16, 2018 1:54:12 GMT
Have you ever filled out those donor cards? No. I know I won't need the stuff any more where I'm headed, but the idea freaks me out. |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 16, 2018 1:55:26 GMT
Have you ever filled out those donor cards? No. I know I won't need the stuff any more where I'm headed, but the idea freaks me out. And that works the other way. I don't think I could deal with someone else's heart or liver or kidney in me, even if it was the only thing keeping me alive. Just waking up and being told I'd been given a blood transfusion would freak me out. |
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Post by kls on Jul 16, 2018 1:56:50 GMT
I usually do 3 or 4 times a year.
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Post by marianne48 on Jul 16, 2018 2:03:47 GMT
Yeah, about 5 times a year. I don't have the money to give to charities on a regular basis, so I give blood instead. It's not that painful (needle in, needle out); pulling the little bandage off afterwards is more painful than the needle itself. You get your blood pressure and cholesterol checked each time, so it's like a mini-checkup. And there's juice and cookies!  Last year, my older brother became seriously ill and wound up in the same hospital where I had given blood a few weeks earlier. Having the same blood type as me, it's possible that my blood may have been used for one of the transfusions he needed. In any case, you'll be helping someone. |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 16, 2018 5:05:18 GMT
Every eight weeks.
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Post by Sulla on Jul 16, 2018 6:07:19 GMT
I've donated and received blood. And if they can salvage anything after I'm gone, they're welcome to it with my best wishes.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 16, 2018 19:13:44 GMT
Well, now I have a story to tell. Kind of funny because I posted on here just yesterday thinking I was going to give blood today. I don't know if any of you are familiar with OneBlood (a bloodmobile that comes through my home town regularly) or Wawa (a convenience store in my area). I don't know how widespread they are. But this afternoon OneBlood came to Wawa and I went down there. I usually recognize some of the medical technicians on the bus but this time I did not. There were about six or seven of them and not one of them looked over twenty years old. The guy who tended to me really looked lost. Everything he did seemed to say "This is my first day on the job". He put the needle in and I squeezed the rubber ball and all that. This was a rare instance in which I actually watched the procedure while it was being done. The needle went in and the blood started to trickle. I mean trickle. It usually flows nicely. Well, the blood never reached the bag. Then he anxiously called someone to come and have a look at it. I was getting pretty anxious too. He walked away for a moment and when he came back he apologized and said "I put the needle in wrong and I'm going to have to take it out. You have a hematoma." I didn't know this word. I said "How dangerous is a hematoma?" He said "It'll heal in a couple of days". I hope that is true but in the meantime I have a noticeably bruised and swollen area on my arm. I have rarely worn a long-sleeved shirt since I came to Florida but it might be necessary for now.
But along with my hematoma I also got a Wawa gift card, which I used for gas, and a free sandwich and drink. To top it off I found five dollars in the parking lot. So it hasn't been a bad day altogether.
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Post by QueenB on Jul 16, 2018 19:17:35 GMT
Yes, I've donated before.
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Post by enigma72 on Jul 16, 2018 20:44:32 GMT
after I married, my husband convinced me to donate blood. I did 2 or 3 times. then new criteria came up: if you had been military /or military adjacent in German , you could not donate blood. there was a slight chance Mad Cow disease had been in the meat in the commissary. so I have not been allowed since. llanwydd my daughter is in florida. when wawa came, northerners were all excited. she said it is nice, but maybe they get a little too wound up about this place. that is nice of all the posters who do donate. thankyou! some day I may benefit from your generosity. |
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Post by Sulla on Jul 16, 2018 21:11:00 GMT
...Wawa (a convenience store in my area)... I'm in the northwestern part of Florida and I've never heard of Wawa. But if we ever get one I know whenever I see the sign I'll probably launch into the George Harrison song, 'Wah-Wah'.  |
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Post by ᵗʰᵉᵃᵘˣᵖʰᵒᵘ on Jul 17, 2018 8:15:58 GMT
I tried to back in the late '90s but before they put the needle in (I was already on the recliner) they did a test and determined I had an irregular pulse, so the procedure was aborted. I have never tried to donate again. I still got my free sausage roll—WIN!
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Post by James Bond on Jul 18, 2018 14:19:27 GMT
My blood's probably not good enough for anyone.
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Post by Caesar Roberto on Jul 19, 2018 4:12:10 GMT
I don't think so. Maybe once as part of a school thing, as I recall a blood van arriving, so maybe there was a blood drive type thing going on but I'm not 100% sure.
I would like to give blood and help people but I don't like needles, and I'd have no idea how to go about giving blood anyway.
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Post by geralmar on Jul 19, 2018 19:49:21 GMT
Used to be a faithful donor to the Red Cross. Then around 2000 a couple weeks after donating blood I received a cryptic letter from them insisting I meet with an official and specifying a meeting time and place in another city. When I showed up, after hemming and hawing the woman said my blood had been rejected because I had tested positive for HIV. After receiving emphatic "No's" to a number of disgusting questions, she asked if I had experienced anything unusual before donating blood. I said that I had received a flu shot about a week before donating; but the nurse at the donation site had assured me that there would be no problem. The woman froze for a moment, then said in a hesitant voice as if afraid of being overhead that the formulation in that year's flu vaccine was causing recipients of the vaccine to test HIV positive if they then donated blood. The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) was acutely aware of the problem and my blood would be sent to them for analysis. We concluded the consultation on a more cordial level than it had begun. Nevertheless, a few weeks later I received a cold and blunt letter from the Red Cross informing me that because my blood had tested unacceptable I was banned from donating for life.
Interesting that the problem with the vaccine was never made public. (Incidentally, I was tested by my doctor and came up "clean". But the ban still rankles-- not that I feel I owe the Red Cross anything now.)
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