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Post by sneakers (Metro Houston) on Mar 15, 2018 23:48:31 GMT -5
Any other blood or blood product donors out there?
I do platelet donation, on average twice a month, at the Pearland Neighborhood Donor Center of Gulf Coast Regional Blood Center (the donation agency in Metro Houston).
I think my first donation of March 2018 will be next Monday if everything goes according to plan. Right now (3/15), I'm out of state because it's Spring Break week in Texas.
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Post by PelicansFan on Mar 17, 2018 0:55:19 GMT -5
I would if I could but I was stationed in England for 3 years at a Navy Commissary just out side of London from Dec.92 to Dec.95. A navy corpsman verbally told me I'd never be able to donate blood because of Mad Cow. I never saw a cow, I saw lots of sheep. Homosexual Men can give blood as of 2017 but RED CROSS says NO WAY FOR ME!!!!
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Post by Sneakers can't remember P/W on Mar 18, 2018 17:55:07 GMT -5
I would if I could but I was stationed in England for 3 years at a Navy Commissary just out side of London from Dec.92 to Dec.95. A navy corpsman verbally told me I'd never be able to donate blood because of Mad Cow. I never saw a cow, I saw lots of sheep. Homosexual Men can give blood as of 2017 but RED CROSS says NO WAY FOR ME!!!! It's a restriction by the Food and Drug Administration, not just American National Red Cross Biomedical Services.
ALL US-based blood banks have the restriction. Although, if you were in the UK, you'd only be permanently deferred if you received a transfusion in the UK.
When it comes to oddball deferrals, I'd say Japan takes the cake. If you ever receive a transfusion, you cannot be a blood donor. Their reasoning is to not have to worry about transfusion-transmitted maladies that their screening can't detect.
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Post by sneakers (Metro Houston) on Mar 19, 2018 21:36:55 GMT -5
Had an appointment for today, but my housemate Chelsea wanted to go with me tomorrow. So, I rescheduled my appointment to tomorrow. We ended out making a trip to Walmart where we bought a lot of stuff. It takes a lot of shopping to fill a mostly empty house (thanks to Harvey).
I normally give in the late afternoon when I can watch the local news (usually KTRK-TV, ABC 13 in Houston).
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Post by sneakers (Metro Houston) on Mar 23, 2018 10:20:31 GMT -5
Donated a platelet triple Tuesday afternoon. Next appointment is scheduled for my birthday in April.
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Post by sneakers (Metro Houston) on Mar 23, 2018 10:28:38 GMT -5
My housemate Chelsea got deferred. As a consolation prize, she went to the nail salon next door. She got to talking to the lady who was next to her about our situation (still recovering from Hurricane Harvey). The lady decided to pay it forward for Chelsea. i had that happen to me once on Christmas Eve at a Mexican restaurant. The plate of enchiladas was even better when I didn't have to pay for it!
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Post by dilbert3333 on Mar 25, 2018 18:19:00 GMT -5
Frequent A-positive, CMV-negative platelet donor. My next scheduled donation is this coming Wednesday. I usually do triple-unit donations, 385 units since starting in October 2010. Making a deposit in the Karma Bank every 2 weeks or so. for the last few years.
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Post by dilbert3333 on Mar 27, 2018 11:35:37 GMT -5
GasBuddy is now socially dead. Forums, messaging, whiteboards all gone. Just call it GasPrices.
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Post by sneakers (Metro Houston) on Mar 27, 2018 21:31:02 GMT -5
GasBuddy is now socially dead. Forums, messaging, whiteboards all gone. Just call it GasPrices. The GasBuddy programmers did a poor job of removing the user interaction features. If you click on the five stories, the rudimentary forum software still comes up. I suspect I'll still continue to update prices to and from the blood bank (about the longest drive I make on a consistent basis: 14.1 miles door-to-door one way).
I went out and updated gas prices with the app today like nothing had happened. The reason for crowdsourced gas prices has not gone away.
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Post by goldie on Mar 28, 2018 4:37:42 GMT -5
Way, way back, many years ago when I was still a teen, I had major surgery. While I was still under the anesthetic, my mother noticed that I was breaking out with some kind of rash. They discontinued the blood transfusions and told her there are other, smaller factors that they don't routinely type, and I was having a reaction to one (or some?) of those. Ever since then I've thought that I probably shouldn't donate blood b/c someone else could have a negative reaction to my blood. I've never really checked on it with more modern science now.
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Post by dilbert3333 on Mar 28, 2018 7:46:46 GMT -5
I have a platelet donation scheduled for this afternoon.
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Post by sneakers (Metro Houston) on Mar 28, 2018 10:25:46 GMT -5
GasBuddy is now socially dead. Forums, messaging, whiteboards all gone. Just call it GasPrices. The GasBuddy programmers did a poor job of removing the user interaction features. If you click on the five stories, the rudimentary forum software still comes up. I suspect I'll still continue to update prices to and from the blood bank (about the longest drive I make on a consistent basis: 14.1 miles door-to-door one way).
I went out and updated gas prices with the app today like nothing had happened. The reason for crowdsourced gas prices has not gone away.
Guess what? If you comment on the stories, you still get points! Sounds like the GasBuddy programmers must work for the pool company that my home warranty company uses! They will admit that parts are broken, but they won't replace them!
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Post by dilbert3333 on Mar 28, 2018 11:02:28 GMT -5
The GasBuddy programmers did a poor job of removing the user interaction features. If you click on the five stories, the rudimentary forum software still comes up. I suspect I'll still continue to update prices to and from the blood bank (about the longest drive I make on a consistent basis: 14.1 miles door-to-door one way).
I went out and updated gas prices with the app today like nothing had happened. The reason for crowdsourced gas prices has not gone away.
Guess what? If you comment on the stories, you still get points! Sounds like the GasBuddy programmers must work for the pool company that my home warranty company uses! They will admit that parts are broken, but they won't replace them!
Thanks for the tip! My Gb join date there is May 23, 2005. I may just stop using it at all after that date, see what my consecutive day streak is and just quit them.
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Post by dilbert3333 on Mar 28, 2018 14:30:30 GMT -5
My regular donation organization, Community Blood Services of New Jersey, has a nice way for donors to streamline the process a bit. On the day of your donation you can remotely answer the health check questionnaire and generate a page with 3 bar codes that they can scan at your check-in. Either print the page and take it with you or show the bar codes in a PDF emailed to your mobile device. I just did mine. Now I just have to show them my donor ID card with its bar code, that gets scanned along with my survey codes, and I'm set for the physical (pulse, BP, temperature, hemoglobin). The other questions I have to answer there are height & weight, and when I last donated.
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Post by sneakers (Metro Houston) on Mar 28, 2018 18:17:55 GMT -5
My regular donation organization, Community Blood Services of New Jersey, has a nice way for donors to streamline the process a bit. On the day of your donation you can remotely answer the health check questionnaire and generate a page with 3 bar codes that they can scan at your check-in. Either print the page and take it with you or show the bar codes in a PDF emailed to your mobile device. I just did mine. Now I just have to show them my donor ID card with its bar code, that gets scanned along with my survey codes, and I'm set for the physical (pulse, BP, temperature, hemoglobin). The other questions I have to answer there are height & weight, and when I last donated.
Gulf Coast Regional Blood Center has the same thing, home health history. The Blood Center calls theirs "CFL Express." I tried it, but I found I could do the questionnaire faster on their HP touch-screen machines than I could on my (then) Mac with keyboard and trackpad. Haven't tried it on my ThinkPad, but I think the same thing would apply. The Blood Center still goes through and asks you five questions. Most likely things that could possibly change between filling out the questionnaire and going to the donor center. When it comes to weight, The Blood Center doesn't take your word on it. TerumoBCT's (formerly CaridianBCT and before that GambroBCT... we have various Trima Accel machines here with all three of the names on them) software needs to know the height and weight of the donor. So, they weigh the donor on the spot! They do take your word on your height. I tell them five feet eleven, although my internist has me at five feet ten and a half. You can't enter fractions into the Trima Accel software. Though sometimes I may weigh less when I donate than when I walk in. I go empty my bladder before they hook me up, and that makes me lighter if I've been drinking up bigtime. One time, they had me set up for a double but I could only hack a single. I was about to pop! They gave me the same number of donor points, however.
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