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Giving Blood
- Thread starter CrazyKell
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i guess if we want to head down the road to american-style health care, then sure, we can do like they do, where people get money for donating blood.
i happen to like our system better.
AB- here. I give almost every 56 days. I got married in Mexico so they didn't want my blood for a year. I marked one year from my return from Mexico and started giving again. I am clear on most of the rules for donating. Yes, there are a lot of rules but they are for the protection of the people receiving the blood.
I was told that rather than using a universal donor blood in an AB- child having surgery, they would give them AB- as it gives the kid the best chance of recovering (least chance of rejection).
I believe that in the future they will get better screening techniques and they will open it up for more people to donate. Right now it is what it is. If people can give I think they should. I feel for the people who want to and can't.
When I am working on a blood drive and I am not able to donate I look to people to donate in my place. That's just me.
I was told that rather than using a universal donor blood in an AB- child having surgery, they would give them AB- as it gives the kid the best chance of recovering (least chance of rejection).
I believe that in the future they will get better screening techniques and they will open it up for more people to donate. Right now it is what it is. If people can give I think they should. I feel for the people who want to and can't.
When I am working on a blood drive and I am not able to donate I look to people to donate in my place. That's just me.
ninjakitty
Well-known member
They don't want my blood, told me yesterday I have to wait 12 months cause of my recreational activities.
cyrus_muller
New member
I have a friend who worked really hard to gain weight so they would let him donate blood. Total respect for someone with that kind of altruistic spirit.
My little bro (19yrs old) is AB- and gives all the time...I wish I could, but I'm pretty sure I'd pass out 
Spyug
Well-known member
Thank you and thanks to all that do and all those that try to give.
I had open heart surgery last August and had an infusion of platelets as my count was quite low. I have a very close buddy that donates frequently but you don't hear much about this need and I'm a bit surprised about that. Maybe they'er having a tough enough time just getting folks to give blood period.
Organ donation too is so important so it would be good if more of us could find it in ourselves to do this.
Ride safely folks.
Spyug
This is exactly the contradiction with Canadian Blood Services screening policy - it's not based on a true assessment of risk.
Consider the following:
If you are a man and have had sex with another man only ONCE at any time since 1977, you are banned for life from giving blood; however, if you are heterosexual and have sex with thousands of prostitutes whose sexual history you do not know, you are only temporarily deferred (I believe it's for one year, as long as the prostitutes were female).
If you're going to ban someone for life for having safe sex with a man even once in order to protect the 'quality' of the blood supply, then I sure as hell think you should also ban the other guy his far riskier behaviour.
Is this true? Answering yes to the "prostitute" questions (they don't use the word, but it's pretty clear) doesn't earn you a permanent ban?
Yep - my ex was involved with a lawsuit against Canadian Blood Services, and this was/is the policy. Note that the prostitutes themselves cannot give blood (taking money or drugs for sex), but having sex with a prostitute only results in a temporary deferral.It's also on their website, although it's not quite as explicit:
Temporary deferral:
"Being the sexual partner of someone who has participated in high risk activities (other than the sexual partner of someone who has tested positive for HIV) will result in a temporary deferral."
Indefinite deferral:
"All men who have had sex with another man, even once, since 1977 are indefinitely deferred. This is based on current scientific knowledge and statistical information that shows that men who have had sex with other men are at greater risk for HIV/AIDS infection than other people."
uhm, no.
let's not encourage donors to lie when the issue is fixing the inequity of the system. . .
two wrongs don't make a right, right?
Not only that, but if they ever catch you in the lie you are likely to get sued by them.
I'm a Living donor, (Kidney) I donated a few years ago in a Domino chain. I don't know who got my kidney.
I'm one of those people that practically pass out at blood tests, the hardest part of the donation was all the testing, must have taken 70 vials of blood out of me, and I still get dizzy when they take blood, don't think I'll ever get use to it, this is the reason I don't donate blood.
If you donated a freaking kidney then I don't think anyone's going to fault you for that! I wouldn't fault other people for it either, though.
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