Blood Donation

Goddessmisca · Post by **Goddessmisca** » Tue Sep 20, 2005 8:04 pm

My current employer will allow us to donate on the clock which rocks for me cause I too, an o neg, but I tend to be all dizzy and fainty after it and it takes me a good hour to recover.

Cuteswan · Post by **Cuteswan** » Tue Sep 20, 2005 8:40 pm

Goddessmisca wrote:... but I tend to be all dizzy and fainty after it and it takes me a good hour to recover.

The next time you donate, I'll be happy to take you home and keep an eye on you while you recover, all without letting Ghastly or Squiddy trade organs with you or stuff like that. (I'll just taking lots of pictures so that I'll be a millionaire when the Tentacles take over and.... Geez? Am I typing what I'm thinking again? Drats!)

Toawa · Post by **Toawa** » Tue Sep 20, 2005 9:19 pm

LindaH wrote:hmm which brings the question.. if I after my transitin would have sex with a guy.. it is ok to donate blood (soooo not gonna happen) but if i have it now.. it is out of the question..

I'd be willing to bet the hormone pills would disqualify you permanently, unfortunately... (I don't know that for a fact, but I don't bet lightly.)

LindaH · Post by **LindaH** » Tue Sep 20, 2005 10:11 pm

toawa.. i dont know about that. havent given blood since 2002. thats when i started to dress differently and didnt want too much people to notice LOL.

but i will look it up

Jackalope · Post by **Jackalope** » Tue Sep 20, 2005 11:22 pm

ghastly: if your arthritis is autoimmune, you're probably permanently deferred from donating blood, anyway. And same for organ donation. I know that's definitely the case in the US. Stands to reason, since there's been at least one case of an organ donation where the recipient aquired the donor's autoimmune disorder (kidney transplant, IIRC). In that case, the donor didn't actually know they had an autoimmune disorder until afterwards, so neither the donor nor the hospital could be blamed.

Red Cross doesn't need mine, anyway. I'm AB+. I'm terribly, terribly screwed if I need a transfusion though, since it looks like I have autoantibodies to my own prothrombin. Or one of the K-dependent clotting factors further up the clotting cascade. I'm just barely above hemophaelliac on the clotting time test and I take a shitload of vitamin K every night with my mineral supplement (it's supposed to help slow down the bone mass loss). If my immune system is destroying my own prothrombin, we really don't want to know what it'll do with someone else's.

Groan. Okay, that's one specialist I haven't seen yet. They're sending me to endocrinology next week, so hematology is one of the few specialties left that I hvaen't seen...