Comments | cabell: please give blood

cabell

please give blood

Sep 01, 2005 21:26

To find a Red Cross blood drive in your area: https://www.givelife.org/index_flash.cfm?thisHB=09/01/2005%2019:17:53Read more... )

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cabell September 2 2005, 02:45:35 UTC

I sent some money today, but I have acceptable blood and I'm actually O+, so I think it's important for me to donate.

You're doing what you can. :-)

helenseidolon September 2 2005, 02:58:28 UTC

That's actually a very good idea. Quebec won't accept my blood, but maybe the USA will.

cabell September 2 2005, 03:04:23 UTC

Why won't Quebec take it?

For their own good, I tell them I haven't slept with a man who's slept with another man since 1977. I know what they're screening for, and I've been tested. Of course, it'd be nice if they asked a SINGLE QUESTION about heterosexual promiscuity, but they only care about THAT if you did it for money. >_<

helenseidolon September 2 2005, 03:09:31 UTC

Heh! My very first time donating blood, a false positive came up on one of their infection screens. Because of the money involved in testing and retesting, they just don't want it. The people I spoke to said it may well have been just a fluke, and my blood won't test positive again, but they couldn't know.

I think I probably will inform the Red Cross about this. Maybe they won't want me either, but it's worth a try.

well great minds think alike... xmorningxrosex September 2 2005, 04:58:12 UTC

ha...you probably have seen my post in the madisonwi comm, but I looked up the site in response to someone's post in uwmadison on donating blood. if I had seen yours first, it would have saved me some time. :)