Donating Blood

[JM]

First time later today, not sure what to expect...a little nervous. You ever donate blood?

 

[HarvestTheFields]

I have selfish AB blood. I don't feel overly compelled to donate my useless blood.

Around here, they give you a cookie for donating. I heard some people can be light-headed afterwards. I recommend eating iron afterwards. I don't think it's painful or anything.

Good for you, donating is important! I hope it all goes well.

 

[faroukfarouk]

First time later today, not sure what to expect...a little nervous. You ever donate blood?

Hope it goes well!

 

[JM]

Didn't pass out!

It was alright. Not diggin' the feeling the day after but it was for a good cause.

 

[Guardians]

My first time I donated blood, I felt light headed and had to stay put for a while, because I didn't eat enough before I donated. Everything got back to normal after a little bit of rest. It's a good thing, donating blood. If a blood drive is going on where I live, I usually donate. I got AB+ blood, I'm not sure who that can all go to, but if I can help save a life, it's more than worth it.

 

[Daniel Hoseini]

Donation of blood is like an almsgiving for me, but with blood instead of money. Here is a video of me donating blood (starting from 6th minute)

 

[The Righterzpen]

My first time I donated blood, I felt light headed and had to stay put for a while, because I didn't eat enough before I donated. Everything got back to normal after a little bit of rest. It's a good thing, donating blood. If a blood drive is going on where I live, I usually donate. I got AB+ blood, I'm not sure who that can all go to, but if I can help save a life, it's more than worth it.

AB+ blood can only go to AB+ people. But you can get blood from anyone!

AB+ is universal recipient.
O- is the universal donor.

A- and B- can only get A- and B- blood respectively.
O- can only get O- blood.
AB- is the most rare but can get blood from A- or B-; where as O+ is the most common. All the - blood types are more rare than the + blood types.

positive blood recipients can get same type blood from - or + donors.

 

[Lost4words]

I tried to give blood once but the sign on the door stopped me going in

 

[The Righterzpen]

I tried to give blood once but the sign on the door stopped me going in

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I don't think I can give blood either? I participated in an HIV vaccine trial like 10 years ago; and though I don't have HIV; I may present as positive for antibodies? (Blood drives do test for HIV.) And if I do test positive for HIV antibodies, then I get reported to the local health department as being positive for HIV antibodies. Which the report to the health department would not state that I have antibodies because of a vaccine trial; but just that I had HIV antibodies; thus they'd likely just assume I had HIV.

But I haven't been tested for HIV since that trial either; so I don't even know if I'd come up at a high enough threshold to be "positive" in the first place? There's a good chance I wouldn't, because most vaccines now a days, do not offer life long immunity.

I'd had titers done about 8 years ago, because they could not find my vaccination records when I started college again. I'd had all the vaccines required in the 70's and plus I'd been vaccinated again for everything when I was in the military.

Well the titers came back that the only thing I'd been vaccinated for, that I was still considered to have "sufficient immunity" was Polio and tetanus. (But I'd had a tetanus shot in 2010 when I'd been in a car accident.) I had immunity to whooping cough and chicken pox because I'd had those. But everything else (excluding polio, chicken pox, whooping cough and tetanus); if I wanted to go back to school, I had to be revaccinated all over again.

But I did manage to get out of the meningitis shot because of my age (I was in my 40's) and that I didn't live on campus.

And of course today; unless schools accepted Covid recovered as sufficient immunity; I wouldn't be able to go back to school anyways; because I ain't getting that stupid Covid vaccine!