Donated Blood Today

i cant give blood, it makes me pass out ... lol

NetSyn

Do you eat before you donate?

ive donated a couple times (o+) here as well. The first time i donated, I was dieting for wrestling for my high school, i think i weighed all of 110 punds at the time, so to make a long story short, i passed out on the table. The scary part was, nobody was monitoring me cause there were like 20 kids in there. I eventually woke up X seconds/minutes later with blood still squirting out of me into the plastic bag. I almost passed out again at the cookie/juice table - It was surreal to watch the blackness slowly envelop you and be cognicent of it.

you would think that after that experience I would steer clear of any blood bank, but I know it is for a good cause, and my blood is needed. After all, my little brother almost died cause he got thrown out of a window and severed his major artery and nerve endings in his arm (my older brother and he were fighting). So without a blood transfusion, he could have died. Not to add any more personal information to the story (why am i doing this anyway?) my mother was a jehovahs witness at the time - and she was dead set against blood transfusions as proscribed by the church. That however was until this accident. I guess she had a moment of clarity and realized her son was more important than her religious tenants. She no longer practices Jehovahs Witness BTW.

BBOP

My mother was an avid donor and on my 18th birthday I donated my first pint. Donated regularly for three gallons worth until two things happened:

1) Foreign trip to 3rd world country no donating allowed for three years.
2) before 3 years High Blood pressure, when under control will donate again.

Blood Type A+

BTW Just a note, O+ in not the universal donor O- is. Negative RF factors cannot accept + donations safely, while + can accept -.

Still O+ is close and there are a lot more O+ than O-

So I can use your blood, but you can't have mine HAHAHHAHAHAAHAH :)

One last thing to those who don't donate. Consider it, it helps others, it doesn't hurt much, and it is good for you too since it stimulates your blood replacement cells and helps to keep your bone marrow rejuvenated.

I'm sorry, but if your mother had choosen religion over her son. I would have thought that would be one of the sickest stories I have ever heard. I can't believe there are people that are so caught up in their religion, they would let a love one go for religion. That is too much for me.

Bombay....

Good to hear the story end on a positive note. Wish the best for you & yours.

Soda.....

your lucky I'm a nice person or I wouldn't share with you.... J/K

Nice point made on the end of your POST.... thank you...

I try to donate blood as much as I can because they seem to always be in need of my type of blood. A+

What is the rarest blood type? I think my grandfather was AB+ or something like that.

Some Information for Everyone....

If two different blood types are mixed together, the blood cells may begin to clump together in the blood vessels, causing a potentially fatal situation. Therefore, it is important that blood types be matched before blood transfusions take place. In an emergency, type O blood can be given because it most likely to be accepted by all blood types. However, there is still a risk involved.

A person with type A blood can donate blood to a person with type A or type AB. A person with type B blood can donate blood to a person with type B or type AB. A person with type AB blood can donate blood to a person with type AB only. A person with type O blood can donate to anyone.

A person with type A blood can receive blood from a person with type A or type O. A person with type B blood can receive blood from a person with type B or type O. A person with type AB blood can receive blood from anyone. A person with type O blood can receive blood from a person with type O only.

Because of these patterns, a person with type O blood is said to be a universal donor. A person with type AB blood is said to be a universal receiver.

another note....

While studying Rhesus monkeys, a certain blood protein was discovered. This protein is also present in the blood of some people. Other people, however, do not have the protein. The presence of the protein, or lack of it, is referred to as the Rh (for Rhesus) factor.
If your blood does contain the protein, your blood is said to be Rh positive (Rh+). If your blood does not contain the protein, your blood is said to be Rh negative (Rh-).

There is no real rarest blood type because medical science is locating people with unique blood types every so often. I know I have heard of a Type T which is very rare and not unique, I do not know if it the rarest, non-unique, or not. I do believe it would suck to have a unique blood type.

If memory serves me the order goes
O, A, B, AB of the common types. You can donate to any type right of yours and receive from any type left of yours. Keep in mind though, as stated previously, RH- can donate to RH+ without danger, RH+ cannot donate to RH- without problems. This is one of the reasons why a pregnant woman with RH- blood can have a baby with RH+ blood but unless given a certain shot she develops an antibody to the RH+ blood type and is likely to damage any other fetus that has an RH+ blood type. This commonly leads to Rhesus Syndrome or vulgarly called Mongoloidism.

Now, maybe we should discuss how to hack into the bloodbank :D J/K

BTW, went to the Doc yesterday, BP is under control (the marvels of modern chemicals) and the medicine does not prohibit me from donating, so I will be down there soon.

According to the Federation Gaming Network's Federal Encyclopaedic System the Medical: Physiology: Blood Type (T-Negative) is a Rare Vulcan blood type.

(that is the only information I could find on Type T Blood.)

If you can provide some legit information on this subject. I would like to see it.

I used to donated regularly until the doctors found something nasty in me, chopped it out gave me a pile of type O neg points and put me on the banned list for 5 years ..... couple of years to go and when the all clear is given the vampires can go back to work again on me .....

We get time off work to donate :) ...... I do miss the break from work and the coffee and biscuits afterwards.