What's your blood type?

[DrPizza]

No clue what type - it's on my donor card, but I just throw those donor cards out. I usually do the double-red donation. Though, I don't like that weird numb feeling in my lips about half way through.

 

[kranky]

Thanks...I didn't know that. I may find some way to be useful to society after all.

Good for you. Being able to make a gift of something that no amount of money could ever buy is pretty cool.

A few years ago I was donating whole blood and the tech said since I am AB+ and CMV- I should be donating plasma instead because it would be more valuable - only 1% of the population is AB+ and CMV-. So the next time I went in I said I would donate plasma. When was doing my first plasma donation, the techs were chatting and one pointed to me and mentioned I was one of the freak universal plasma donors for babies. And the lady donating in the chair next to mine heard that and said her baby needed plasma after being born and it being available saved her baby's life, and with tears in her eyes thanked me most profusely for giving plasma, as if I had personally been there with her baby to donate.

I figured that was enough of a sign that I should be giving plasma, and that's what I've done ever since.

 

[notposting]

O+, and the wife is O-. Son is O+.

 

[phucheneh]

The thing that I hate about donating blood is that you basically have no idea if it will actually get used. You could donate a thousand times and have every pint of it get chucked in the trash due to some anomaly that comes up in testing.

 

[Mixolydian]

I'm surprised they haven't figured out how to manufacture blood in a lab yet.

 

[SheHateMe]

I remember recruiting a friend to donate blood back in HS. Everything was fine until they slapped the band-aid on and told her she was good to go. She stood right up and passed out.

 

[SP33Demon]

Where is thee pole

 

[Sonikku]

C+

Just like school.

 

[clamum]

Needs moar pohl.

Wait, you're not allowed to add a poll to an already created topic right? What kinda shit developer made this software?

 

[nickbits]

The thing that I hate about donating blood is that you basically have no idea if it will actually get used. You could donate a thousand times and have every pint of it get chucked in the trash due to some anomaly that comes up in testing.

I think there is a good chance they will send you a letter if your blood consistently fails testing but maybe that's only if you have a serious illness (AIDS or something).

 

[phucheneh]

Maybe you're right. I was thinking more of it just failing an antibody test or some other thing that can basically mean 'you're healthy, but we don't want you blood.'

 

[Durvelle27]

Unknown

 

[gorb]

O+

 

[T_Yamamoto]

Asian. So I have O

 

[Red Storm]

I haven't donated blood in forever. I don't even remember what my blood type is. Can I go to a clinic and donate, and will they be able to tell me my blood type?

 

[highland145]

I haven't donated blood in forever. I don't even remember what my blood type is. Can I go to a clinic and donate, and will they be able to tell me my blood type?

May have to wait for your card in the mail but yes.

 

[allisolm]

B+
Husband is B+.
Thankfully children are both B+ or I might have had some 'splainin' to do.

Used to donate regularly but they decided that, since I lived in Europe for a time, I might have eaten some beef that might have come from England and which could possibly have come from a cow there that might have been exposed to mad cow disease which makes my blood ineligible for donation forever more.

 

[Scotteq]

O+

The local hospital get a pint every few months...


...I hate giving platelets, tho...

 

[Fritzo]

Asian. So I have O

Wouldn't you have more of a slanted O?

:awe:

 

[Gooberlx2]

O+

I try to donate when they come around to work, but for the last several years I've been screened out every time for various reasons:
- having had a tattoo within X number of months
- having traveled abroad to Y country
- having lived with someone infected with Z disease

 

[Baked]

I have no fucking idea and I've been through plenty of surgeries in my short life already. I hate my life.

 

[BarkingGhostar]

It's always good to know your blood type in case of an emergency. With O+, you're the most common and therefore least likely to face a shortage during a surgery.

Actually, AB+ types are the most lucky since they can receive blood from everyone.

 

[nickbits]

B+
Husband is B+.
Thankfully children are both B+ or I might have had some 'splainin' to do.

Used to donate regularly but they decided that, since I lived in Europe for a time, I might have eaten some beef that might have come from England and which could possibly have come from a cow there that might have been exposed to mad cow disease which makes my blood ineligible for donation forever more.

Kids could be O- or O+ depending on your genotype.

 

[silverpig]

Actually, AB+ types are the most lucky since they can receive blood from everyone.

But I think you can only take non-typed blood once or something. So an AB+ can take O- once, but after that they gotta get AB+.

I heard that somewhere. No idea if it's true or not.

 

[Charlie98]

O NEG... that's what it says on my dogtags.