Unfortunately, donating platelets takes a couple hours, plus about 30 minutes each way to the donation site, so it's a little tricky to arrange on my end. I'm up to around 14 pints of blood--I really should keep better track.
Ya - I was watching someone doing platelets across the way when I gave last week - I like my whole blood donation - after they stick the needle I'm usually done <10 minutes - fast bleeder I guess.
Ya - I was watching someone doing platelets across the way when I gave last week - I like my whole blood donation - after they stick the needle I'm usually done <10 minutes - fast bleeder I guess.
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I hope you're ok!
Much better now, thanks!
But - sobering to realize how easy it is for we road warriors/esses to assume that exhaustion is due to a crazy schedule, long days, jet lag, etc. when there could be something physically wrong.
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Much better now, thanks!
But - sobering to realize how easy it is for we road warriors/esses to assume that exhaustion is due to a crazy schedule, long days, jet lag, etc. when there could be something physically wrong.
Glad you're on the road to recovery
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So I completed my 42nd donation today (at least, by the count of my current blood bank, with which I've done the vast majority of my lifetime donations). It's a bit daunting to think that by the current FDA guidelines -- maximum of 24 donations per year for certain kinds of donations including platelets -- it would take me 23 years at "maximum warp speed" to catch up with the blood bank's current leader in donations (just broke the mark of 600 lifetime donations). And who knows where he'll be by then?
So I completed my 42nd donation today (at least, by the count of my current blood bank, with which I've done the vast majority of my lifetime donations). It's a bit daunting to think that by the current FDA guidelines -- maximum of 24 donations per year for certain kinds of donations including platelets -- it would take me 23 years at "maximum warp speed" to catch up with the blood bank's current leader in donations (just broke the mark of 600 lifetime donations). And who knows where he'll be by then?
My local office of CBS has a donor who hit 1,000 earlier this year. As a plasma donor he can give 52 times a year, but that's still nearly 20 years straight of never missing an appointment.
Congratulations! I just got around to lifetime pint #2.
Was asked to do double red cell but then told that I didn't have a good enough vein for the return. Oh well.
I have been rejected four times because my iron level has been hovering around the 11.x when the minimum requirement is 12.5. Given free iron pills again, but my mandatory coffee intake is affecting my iron absorption.
Here in Singapore, regulations state that whole blood donation can only be done once every three months while plasmapheresis every month. But people are always willing to step up and donate which is pretty awesome.
Like recently there was the long holiday weekend which led to some blood supplies going into critical levels. News spread everywhere, particularly on Facebook, and people just went for it and supplies are healthy now. It happens every time the levels go too low.
The only freebie is a meal coupon post-donation, and a birthday cake if you did it on your birthday apparently. You also get your name on a wall if you donated a specific number of times. I don't even like needles, but I want to get on that wall!
