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Things you learn from donating blood.
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Jan 22, 2024, 9:33 AM
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I am considered (by the Red Cross) to be a “hero for babies”. Seems that it’s because I’m an O+ universal donor and because I am in the 15% of adults with no exposure to the CMV virus, which apparently can really harm immunocompromised infants.
It also appears that CMV is a type of herpes virus, and given that most of you have it, I’d like to see if B-meist can start a board for us purebloods.
In all seriousness, I hadn’t donated blood in a while, and the new Red Cross app is awesome. It even tells you when your blood has been used. Pretty cool.
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Oculus Spirit [85559]
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So the regular blood people around here get $70
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Jan 22, 2024, 9:36 AM
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How much you get for the good stuff?
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Lot o points [156093]
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I think I got a $10 Amazon gift card
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Jan 22, 2024, 9:44 AM
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So, super lucrative.
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Oculus Spirit [85559]
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Re: I think I got a $10 Amazon gift card
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Heisman Winner [138136]
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Oculus Spirit [85559]
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For serious, my MIL paid for all of the Christmas presents with
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Jan 22, 2024, 9:51 AM
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by selling blood and platelets and she ain't even poor.
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Oculus Spirit [76427]
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Yes, she is donating plasma,
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Jan 22, 2024, 12:06 PM
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They will give you $100 for your first 8 donations. So $800 in a month is pretty decent for an hour twice a week
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I want to donate plasma, but I don't want to hang out with the people
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Jan 22, 2024, 12:27 PM
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that donate plasma...
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Lot o points [156093]
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Bingo. Its like owning an RV for me.***
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Jan 22, 2024, 12:31 PM
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Not all heroes wear crepes.***
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And the rest of us apparently don't wear condoms.***
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do you do Power Reds?
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I've been doing it for years. Less waiting or chance of delay to start. Takes longer, but they don't ask you to wait around after your done. And, you can do your year's quota in two donations.
The app is not new, must've been quite a while since you donated. It's easy for me, I have a permanent reservation for the 1st appt for double reds, twice a year. I'm up to 85 units donated, according to the app.
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Lot o points [156093]
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Ive given a crapton of blood, just not to Red Cross.
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Jan 22, 2024, 10:03 AM
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I have secondary polycythemia, so basically I have too many red blood cells. I have to give blood regularly to basically thin my blood back out. I had been going to a hematologist for a phlebotomy regularly, and it bothered me to know they were just ditching it when they were done, so I’m trying to get back in more of a donation cycle when able.
Have not done the power red because, as I understand it, it doesn’t solve the issue that I’m giving blood to correct.
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Re: Things you learn from donating blood.
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Jan 22, 2024, 9:46 AM
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my sugar dropped so fast last time i gave blood that my hearing went out
ice bags and orange juice brought it back
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I don't put a ton of stock in RC assessments of virus exposure
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after they tried to get me divorced a few years ago when they told me I had syphilis (I think, coulda been gonorrhea or chlymidia or AIDS, don't really remember), and they wouldn't take my blood. Happened a second time, and I went to my PCP and he said it was because of the particular test they were using, but that I could go take a more robust blood test just to be sure. Turns out, I didn't have an STD, but had to spend a decent amount of time and something > $0 to make sure that wasn't the case and that divorce wasn't warranted.
Anyway, the moral of the story I'm taking from this is don't do anything nice for anybody, ever. And I suck at story morals because I'm donating tomorrow.
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My brother in law, my wife, and a friend of mine
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Jan 22, 2024, 9:50 AM
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ALL were told they had one of the heps. Their blood wasn't accepted. Later testing revealed none of them in fact had a hep.
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Heisman Winner [138136]
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Seriously, they need to fix however they're doing that test, because
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Jan 22, 2024, 9:52 AM
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that's more than a "oh, we can't use this bag of blood"--that's potentially (very) detrimental to their donors when you tell them they have an STD.
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Oculus Spirit [85559]
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For real, my friend was convinced he had the hep
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Jan 22, 2024, 9:53 AM
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and lived that way for two years and said I have to be careful with my liver and HE DIDN'T EVEN HAVE IT!!!
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Ok, story time. I spent the time debating whether
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To post, but you convinced me 19B®
When we were in Charlotte, my wife started experiencing a lot of pain down yonder, so we (for reasons I can’t explain nor recall) went to the hospital in Pineville.
It seems we got the most wet behind the ears on call resident ever, as I soon learned. He basically did the exam and then told my wife she had some raging form of STD that was super advanced. Furthermore, (because he had apparently been watching a lot of House, MD) he informed all in the room that normally you only saw sex workers with this condition or they caught it from partners who had tons of sex partners themselves. At that moment, all eyes in the room, including my wife’s, turned to me.
I told her that was BS and that I’d handle it, and then left the room to call her OB-GYN. He had delivered our kids and we knew him well, and I begged him to come to the hospital to not only help my wife, but to possibly save our marriage.
He arrived, did a quick exam, turned to the resident and said “It’s a UTI, you idiot” before taking him out in the hallway and giving him a world class dressing down.
Anyway, long ways of saying, I’ve been there brother.
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Damm, at least mine was mostly snail mail correspondence and
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Jan 22, 2024, 11:15 AM
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being able to choose when to broach the subject with the wifey. You got put on the SPOT with that one. That dude is reckless.
You should have been like "I'm not the sex worker, SHE'S the sex worker, people!"
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I've experienced a resident watching too many episodes of House too
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not as dramatic as yours but he did get really excited and ask if we were homeless when trying to come up with a diagnosis of my 6 year old's medical mystery.
To be fair, my son had taken a chopper ride to the hospital and I hadn't slept in 48 hours so we may have actually looked homeless at that point.
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"Pfffft, I haven't had to sleep in a car since I dated Crash,
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Jan 22, 2024, 1:26 PM
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thank you very much."
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We ought to isolate you purebloods to prevent us commoners from...
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contaminating you. At one time they called them internment camps. The British call them royalty. You don't mind buckteeth do you?
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Is there an online test you can take that tells you your blood type?
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Jan 22, 2024, 9:53 AM
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I can't believe I don't know my blood type.
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Blood Connection gives away a lot of Clemson Swag
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Jan 22, 2024, 9:54 AM
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Coot stuff too but what evs
Their offices are fancier too - nice donating couches and high speed wifi
I can't give any more because on blood thinners but I used to treat it like a regular mini physical.
If you can you should.
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O+ here as well - I prefer the Blood Connection, since they
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actually pay for your blood. Even got one of these Brumate coolers for donating platelets.
No sense giving away for free the liquid gold flowing through your veins...
Plus the Red Cross location closed in Florence a few years ago, so Blood Connection is my only choice...
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Looks like they arent in TN.***
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I used to donate platelets to BC for years but had to stop because
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apparently some patient who got my platelets developed some kind of something that might have been from my platelets or not, but they couldn't take mine anymore.
Not sure if that is a life sentence or not. I didn't collect much swag but that used to be how I kept up with movies as they would come out on DVD.
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The Red Cross never accepts when I try to donate.
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Jan 22, 2024, 10:05 AM
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I mean, it's not an easy task getting all those 5-gallon buckets to the donation center without spilling any on the upholstery and carpet. One would think the Red Cross would appreciate my efforts.
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I give through two different groups
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Just logged into the NY Blood Center and I've given over 7 gallons. Probably approaching 10 gallons between both services.
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O neg here without the CMV - been donating every 8 weeks for years
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but my f'ing Hemoglobin is too low and I cannot donate. Baby blood is awesome.
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After my Clemson days, me finding out there was a virus that
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I didn’t have was like Angus Young finding out he had zero hearing loss.
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Since I have RA, I cannot donate blood.
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Jan 22, 2024, 11:31 AM
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Well, there are some places that say it's okay but I don't want to give my blood full of auto-immune disease and terrible medications floating around in it.
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Oculus Spirit [79304]
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Does the new app tell you who received the blood and where they are?
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Jan 22, 2024, 12:28 PM
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you know, in case you want it back?
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It tells you which hospital it went to
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Jan 22, 2024, 12:32 PM
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So I guess you could go to the front desk and make a scene yelling “I’m out for blood!” I don’t see how that could go wrong.
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