If You Can Donate Blood, Here's Another Reason Why You Should

[alfreda89]

Not everyone can donate blood. You may have lived during certain years in countries later found to be fighting Mad Cow Disease; you may be taking meds that cannot be easily filtered out; you may be in an immune-compromised state, and your white blood cells always bail first.

But if you can give blood? Here is one of the places that blood might be used. Another way they magically save lives. "Endless blood" saves the lives of new mothers where before, for thousands of years, we lost those women.

It really is the gift of life.

Comments

[6-penny.livejournal.com]

With the Lyme I wouldn't dare. Alas

[alfreda89.livejournal.com]

Would you believe that the blood bank told me that I could donate again after I was off antibiotics for 12 months? Yet they registered nothing in my blood when I could tell that I felt "off" but had no explanation, pre-diagnosis. I have no clue what measure to use to tell if I am "healed" which they all swear is possible. Except the specialists who fear we only drive it into dormancy and strengthen ourselves.

I read a science article (which I can no longer find--I wonder if they were asked to bury it?) about a case where four people contracted Lyme disease, all from the same organ donor. I can't remember now if that was undiagnosed and untreated, or known and supposedly cured.

But I intend to add a letter to my personal packet that a hospital has to sign if they want to use any of my organs. I want proof that my family told them.

[6-penny.livejournal.com]

I recall the same story. Which is why I am wary of donating I know that my father who had had several bouts of malaria also never donated for the same reason.

[alfreda89.livejournal.com]

We know of over 300 vector borne diseases. Most of them we know enough to name, and some of the symptoms. That's it.

Not comforting.