Where in the World Isn't Bob Saget?

Songbird76

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MinnieM123

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Just saw that on the news. I honestly don't know my blood type.

Mine is red? 🤔 Haven't a clue what letter it is.

We used to have periodic blood drives at my old office. A bunch of us would go down and donate together. I was either denied because of low iron or I passed out. After the third time in a row the passing out I decided donating blood might not be for me.

In the hospital where I worked, a colleague of mine had just donated blood, and then went to the elevator. Pressed the button for her floor and then crashed on the floor!! But, it happened in a hospital, and there were 4 doctors in the elevator with her -- so that was helpful. :joyfull:
 

NYwdwfan

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Mine is red? 🤔 Haven't a clue what letter it is.



In the hospital where I worked, a colleague of mine had just donated blood, and then went to the elevator. Pressed the button for her floor and then crashed on the floor!! But, it happened in a hospital, and there were 4 doctors in the elevator with her -- so that was helpful. :joyfull:
It would happen whilr I was donating. I would try talking to people, listening to music, definitely not watching, etc. and inevitably I’d have to call the tech over to tell them I’m fading fast!! I think I was thinking about it too much and unable to talk myself out of it.
 

Goofyernmost

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I have 72 or 73 donations under my belt, but got a semi-permanent deferral when I started taking a new medication a few years ago.

I have my 50-donation pin, but not my 75th. 🙁
I was well over 100, I stopped counting, and was a double donor... Two for the price of one. Then I was diagnosed with Prostate Cancer and could no longer donate. It was upsetting to me because I felt it was one of the few things that I could do to help others. I jokingly suggested that they label my blood for females only because it was just about close to impossible for them to get Prostate Cancer. They were not amused. I do wonder, if what I did donate was a problem for anyone, since my cancer type is a very, very slow growing thing and I probably had it for 10 years or so before my PSA was high enough to alarm anyone. That would kind of be counter productive to my original intent.

I have to wonder just what it will take to make me faint. Even when I had that bout with Sepsis and my BP was 60/25 I didn't even feel light headed. I needed to use the bathroom but the staff went bonkers and insisted that I had to use a wheelchair, I refused, at first, because, frankly, at the time I didn't realize that my BP was that low or that it might cause me to be unsteady.

For the benefit of @JenniferS, I just remembered that I was rendered unconscious once when I was 12 years old and had the bike accident where I went over the handle bars and landed on my head. (Three bounces and I was out) All I remember after that was waking up with bike in front of me and my head resting on the side of the seat. I had never before or since felt so totally relaxed as I did that moment. Then I moved my arm and the effect was gone. There wasn't a spot on my body that wasn't hurting. Wanna know the best part? I never told anyone until a couple of days later when I developed what turned out to be a blood clot on my abdomen. I didn't know what it was, but, even though I really wasn't displaying a whole lot of bright up until then, decided that I should tell someone. I had been wearing long sleeve shirts in mid-July to hide the skinned arms and let my hair (I had some then) sort of fall down over my forehead to hide the injury on my head. The doctor gave me a major dressing down for being so stupid. He said I had a serious concussion, Arms and hands that could have been infected (they weren't) and a blood clot that could have killed me. Also I was racing my bike after being told not to by my parents and that didn't set well with them either. It was a dark period of my young life. However, it could have been much, much worse.
 
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I am hit or miss with anything blood related. Sometimes I get light headed. Other times I'm totally fine.
I am a Nurse so I better not be squeamish to blood related stuff. One thing you can always keep handy if you ever have to give blood and you should always say this to the Nurse who is taking your blood that you get a bit light headed. They should then get you some Orange Juice to have with you and maybe some Graham Crackers.
 

JenniferS

When you're the leader, you don't have to follow.
I am a Nurse so I better not be squeamish to blood related stuff. One thing you can always keep handy if you ever have to give blood and you should always say this to the Nurse who is taking your blood that you get a bit light headed. They should then get you some Orange Juice to have with you and maybe some Graham Crackers.
Ahaha, I saw the Hoser part, and knew you had to be a fellow Canadian.
 

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