Blood Donors

I usually do plasma/platelets so I'm eligible every two weeks.

 

Bump.


Donating blood is important.

 

i use to be in charge of it at my high school and reached my pints goal. ::nerd::

that means you have good veins and you pump fast!

traveling is a big issue with donating blood. people who have recent tattoos and are exposed to certain drugs can't donate also. and if your under 110 pounds! can you say anorexic? or they just might be smaller in physique.

 

I "gave" blood once...didn't even fill up a quarter of the bag!

For some reason, I don't bleed, even after several minutes of the lady poking and prodding my arm (needles don't bother me, and I'm type O, so I should have been a great candidate). The guy had to poke 3 holes into my finger, because the first 2 didn't give enough blood.

Who knows, maybe my body is greedy. Or awesome. At least I don't have to worry about dying of blood loss ^_^.

 

Got a tattoo recently, so don't think I can donate... Maybe a couple personal things to I am curious about might prevent me from donating

 

I lived in Germany between certain years on a military base something about a mad cow outbreak lol.

 

I had a friend that lived in a couple years in England growing up. She is on the black list from donating blood for life because of living over there (mad cow). Funny thing is she is a Nurse.

 

Yeah it happens, damn foreign countries lol.

 

i love donating for many reasons. 1) you get to replenish your old blood with newer, healthier blood 2)free snack and drink 3)free tshirt or w.e they have for you 4) save lives

 

I am an O positive donor on the 56 day cycle. They always call to remind me its time.

 

I've donated blood twice and have passed out twice. My body is weird. I don't get queasy (?) when I see blood it is just very weird. A little loss of blood for me and I black out.

 

I get 2 days off a year to give blood so thats one reason I give. I think if people got a day off to give blood more people would give blood.

 

I've donated before. I hesitated to do so cause i heard you can't donate if you have tattoos, but the lady said it be fine

 

I've donated before, but I choose not to, I get lite headed and pass out... then wake up on the floor... its pretty embarassing! B Rh+ 9.4% of the population has this.

 

O pos

 

I work in a hospital so I donate everytime the blood drive comes around. I've been donating for a few years now, and it's kinda cool to know I'm helping somebody out. I unfortunately don't weigh enough to do the double red cell donation..though I would if I could.

 

I've been donating for years, I did the double red cells yesterday. They call me all the damn time

 

x2, I've donated for many years, but yesterday was the first time for double rbc's. I felt great and it cuts the donations down to 3 times a year, win/win.

 

After years of donating blood, they got me started on platelets. It's a 2 hour process where they pull the blood out of one arm, filter it, then pump it back with saline through the other arm. I can do this every 2 weeks. I try to do it as often as possible, but it has been a little while since my last visit.

 

if you ever done drugs like Heroin, you can never donate blood!

I'm O Positive, too! they always blow up my cell phone when they need blood.