Dang phobia

Type AB blood is coveted for plasma donation. Apparently just from males but not every web site mentions that.

 

Female plasma can contain antibodies, from multiple pregnancies, that can cause rare but serious transfusion reactions that can be fatal. It is called TRALI, or transfusion related acute lung injury.

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An excellent plan - it even removes the need for needles.

But it doesn't work in most countries, unfortunately.....

 

Placental backwash. Holy Moley.

 

I donated platelets for a while. One needle in each arm, flat on your back for 45 minutes. Kind of tough, but worth it to help a cancer patient. Then my reactions to the anticoagulant got worse and worse. My last time, I almost upchucked straight up before they could unhook me. They said I'd better not come back. Made me sad because I knew people were needing those platelets.

 

Tum ta tum tum!

 

Yah. That was even with the Tums. Helped a tiny bit, but not nearly enough. It felt like my teeth were going to buzz right out of my gums. Tummy doing major flip flops. When I started making wretching noises, the nurses really scrambled.

 

I seem to have almost the opposite problem. I don't mind needles or blood at all. In fact, I want to watch to see what's going on, even if it's my stitches being put in. Taking my own stitches out was no issue either - almost fun. I've donated blood many times, but the first is still one of the most memorable. The needle went in, the blood came out, and then I got to eat cookies and drink juice, only half listening to the talk about taking it easy for awhile. So of course, I hopped on my bike to ride home, and maybe ten minutes later at a stop light, my head was very swimmy and I had to go sit by a tree for a few minutes. Stupid kid - I could have passed out in traffic and got runned over. So now, I'm more careful to heed medical advice.

 

I'd love to give blood, but we British people are not allowed to give blood in Australia or China. I am sure this policy is depriving someone needy of some very high-quality cholesterol.

 

First time I read I guess I skimmed too fast; thought you said something about DOING your own stitches, lol.

 

Mad cows@29. Is it really truly only Brits who ended up on the wrong side of this, and may the rule ever lift?

Ain't cholesterol they want, it's your buffy coats.

 

The policy in Australia is Brits, and anyone who lived in Britain for more than six months between I think 1980 and 1995. In China it's just a blanket ban on Brits, I think.

What is a buffy coat?

 

Centrifuge blood and get 3 layers. Bottom is red cells. Top is plasma. Thin middle layer is buffy coat. That's where the magic is...

But around here we faint at sight of vacutainers, so process will probably not get carried to completion.

I used vacutainers to collect gas samples for later analyses. Customs officials were highly intrigued by that.

 

My older brother was USAF in the UK in 1981, he is banned for life in the US.

 

Ahha. That explains it.

Is this the part of blood that also slays vampires?

 

Right. Much the same as Australia, then.

On the bright side, we did have delicious burgers during that time. Those prions added a certain je ne sais quoi.

And then if you have enough of them, they add a certain je ne sais plus rien.

 

Needles, stitches, etc. None of that scares me at all.

I tore up my knee in a mountain biking incident several years ago and needed surgery. I tried to talk the surgeon in letting me stay awake and watch....no go.

My husband fainted when he saw the knee. Literally. Luckily, he was next to a bed and collapsed on it.

Maybe I should have been a physician....already a "doctor," LOL!

 

Slayer@35. A conundrum, that. Maybe they spit out the troubling parts.

Blood experiments may not be done at schools any more. But mix together incompatible types and bing, you get aspic. Dramatic. Has made me wonder who vampires can feed on A and then B. Or AB.

 

no go@37. Try as you might to convince, they are always thinking that you've overstated gung ho and lead to problems when they get to innards.

That, and room 'chatter' can be less inhibited when you're not listening.

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Even if CPII is not up for the long grind of med school at this stage, I suppose there are abundant opportunities for hospital volunteering. You can put up with seeing guts and that is not common. You'd see amazing things that happen while the client..um... 'rests'.

 

So only seeing the needle pierce the skin is a trigger, or is feeling it pierce also enough? I wonder because I knew someone whose aversion to needles would prevent them from receiving Novocaine. They would actually endure a full root canal with full sensation - no pain dulling whatsoever. THIS blows my mind.