Give Blood. It may save a life...YOURS!
Jul 9, 2012, 10:07 am
#346
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Indiana has the https://www.donorpoint.org/ system when is nice since it tracks everything.
Jul 9, 2012, 10:55 am
#347
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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.
Indiana has the https://www.donorpoint.org/ system when is nice since it tracks everything.
Indiana has the https://www.donorpoint.org/ system when is nice since it tracks everything.
Jul 9, 2012, 12:48 pm
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Jul 25, 2012, 7:45 pm
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^^^ To all of you who so generously donate blood, please accept the heartfelt thanks of a FTer who just had a transfusion a few weeks ago.
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Jul 25, 2012, 8:03 pm
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Jul 25, 2012, 8:42 pm
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Jul 26, 2012, 9:50 am
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Aug 3, 2012, 12:50 pm
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A Ten Gallon Hat1 :D
Donating blood as we speak
Pint# 80
Pulse 67
BP 116/70
Blood type red
Pint# 80
Pulse 67
BP 116/70
Blood type red
Aug 22, 2012, 1:03 am
#355
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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?
Aug 22, 2012, 9:35 am
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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?
Sep 7, 2012, 7:11 pm
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Sep 9, 2012, 11:13 am
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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!
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!
Last edited by Ryvyan; Sep 9, 2012 at 11:23 am
Sep 13, 2012, 9:26 pm
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