Jack
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« on: March 20, 2009, 11:29:17 AM » |
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Not trying to be negative but please remember to give blood this riding season. A brother might need it. Thanks.
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Bob E.
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« Reply #1 on: March 20, 2009, 11:59:31 AM » |
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I actually have an appointment to give blood next Thursday.  |
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Brad
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« Reply #2 on: March 20, 2009, 12:19:17 PM » |
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Chrisj CMA
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« Reply #3 on: March 20, 2009, 02:40:08 PM » |
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When I came off of flying status in '91 I started giving blood every 8 weeks for over 8 years......then in 1999 they decide I may have MAD COW Disease so Im banned from giving any now even though its been twenty two years since I was in England...........  What about all that blood I gave and now a hundred recipients have MAD COW? LOL  |
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Jack B
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« Reply #4 on: March 20, 2009, 04:31:44 PM » |
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I'm a blood donor. When I give I make the next appointment right away.
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NiteRiderF6
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« Reply #5 on: March 20, 2009, 06:58:04 PM » |
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I can't give presently because they have a ban on anybody that has traveled to certain portions of southern Mexico during the last 12 months.... the horrendous flooding there spurned a malarian outbreak. Mine won't be up until May, 2009.... unless I have to return there for work.
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SlowRoad
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« Reply #6 on: March 21, 2009, 04:55:33 AM » |
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I donated about 3 weeks ago.
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SteveL
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« Reply #7 on: March 21, 2009, 08:10:35 AM » |
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I gace blood the other day as I'm going in for total knee replacement surgery an dmay need a cup afterwards, but if not, it's paying it forward for the next guy.
Besides, where else do you get to lay down and get treated so sweetly by a cute little nurse for a couple hours?
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Gryphon
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« Reply #8 on: March 22, 2009, 10:46:44 AM » |
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Besides, where else do you get to lay down and get treated so sweetly by a cute little nurse for a couple hours?
A couple hours? Heck, I spend longer filling out the paperwork than anything else. It takes me 5 minutes to give my pint, 15 to eat my snack and register for the next time and then I'm back to work in 45 minutes. Working on my 6 gallon pin. |
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« Reply #9 on: March 22, 2009, 01:51:13 PM » |
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I'm banned from giving blood for life. I had to answer "yes" to too many of the questions they wanted a "no" for. . .  |
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hubcapsc
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« Reply #10 on: March 23, 2009, 08:26:36 AM » |
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When I came off of flying status in '91 I started giving blood every 8 weeks for over 8 years......then in 1999 they decide I may have MAD COW Disease so Im banned from giving any now even though its been twenty two years since I was in England........... What about all that blood I gave and now a hundred recipients have MAD COW? LOL Yeah, if you've never given blood yet, don't take your mother or your kindly old aunt on your first trip - wait till after you hear all the excruciating questions they ask you before they put in the IV... and they ask again, every time... "no, I still haven't had sex with anthing outside my species..." -Mike |
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« Reply #11 on: March 23, 2009, 08:40:21 AM » |
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and they ask again, every time... "no, I still haven't had sex with anthing
outside my species..." It is probably good that they keep asking...some people...maybe not you, but I'm sure those questions change for some people occasionally. |
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« Reply #12 on: March 23, 2009, 09:03:37 AM » |
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I give when they let me. I have to wait longer then most people because I have iron rich blood and I do DOUBLE RED which is equal to two pints of blood. So you have to wait longer to give.
Dan
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Tropic traveler
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« Reply #13 on: March 23, 2009, 09:15:34 AM » |
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Donated on 2/12. They won't let me donate again 'til 4/8. My mother used a LOT of blood a few years back & the local blood bank was right there to help. She is fine now. We haven't forgotten that! Family & friends have more than offset what Mom used but we still go to donate.  |
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« Reply #14 on: March 23, 2009, 12:55:12 PM » |
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Good post, thanks for the reminder. I try to give about 5 times a year. Someone will need it. I hope it isn't anyone here, but just in case, there it is. Luckily (or is it by design?) I have no tattoo's scheduled to get in the way of giving blood.  Tattoos are cool, just not for me.  |
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