Posted on 07/14/2004 4:06:11 PM PDT by SanityFromTheLeftCoast
Due to many recent and upcoming pediatric surgeries, like Lexie's, we are critically low in your blood type, type-O. Combined with historically slow summer months, we need donors like you to help us meet patient needs. Call 888-723-7831 or visit our web site at http://bloodcenter.stanford.edu to request an appointment.
Thank you for your continued support! Blood donors save lives!
At only 5-months-old, Lexie needed six units of blood during a nine-hour liver transplant operation that saved her life. Doctors at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital expect Lexie to grow up healthy and happy thanks, in part, to the blood donors that saved her life.
http://bloodcenter.stanford.edu/news/inventory.html
Or maybe it's that SF is going vampire-chic now.
You just reminded me that I need to get my family started donating for my upcoming Bypass Surgery at UCSF. Good Luck to you...
oh, they think you are making light of the blood situation...
but the number of possible donors is way down, look at all those women that get tattoos all over their back, plus all the diseases out there....
As I've said in a published letter to the editor or two here in New Hampshire - "they could make us pay, but they couldn't make us stay."
The FDA has determined that people receiving my blood will get Mad Cow Disease and die. Ditto for my husband and son. Apparently, about 10% of potential blood donors are turned away because they served in Europe (my son was born there). At military blood centers, about 50% of potential donors are turned away.
What a shame. I can't say how many times I've seen pleas for A+ blood (my type) and I can't donate.
Hmm, I just moved from California to Maryland. (Ten years ago I made the move in the opposite direction.)
Do you suppose I may have just jumped from the frying pan into the griddle? :)
I'm sure in a big city like that that there are lots of qualified people who give blood, however with "alternative life-styles," drug abuse, etc. being more socially accepted there than in most places, well, that should be a concern.
If you think our current "conservative" (yeah, right) Supreme Court is bad, wait until, God forbid, a Kerry Supreme Court declares that the "alternative lifestyles" folks and drug abusers have the right to donate diseased blood. That is not as far-fetched as it seems. Already some activists and academics are pushing for this.
Good luck on your upcoming surgery. I did autologous donations for my last two back surgeries. I was told that they would charge me something like $40.00 per unit of blood that relatives/friends donated for me. They said that it was processing fees. Maybe things are different where you are at. Anyway, best of luck on your surgery. We, your friends at FR, will keep you in our prayers, Tubebender. Please keep us up to date on your progress. Take care and God bless.
I made that move four years ago, after I got tired of the frenetic pace in the South SF Bay area. It also bugged me that one of the primary topics of conversation was how ones high tech stocks were doing.
I have O-Neg blood, they used to be glad to see me coming, but after a course of treatment with anti-cancer drugs in 1996, nobody wants my blood anymore.
My Type-O blood and tax dollars left for South Dakota.
There's plenty of Type-O blood in the Bay Area... That is, of course, if you don't mind a few "additives".
Well, it seems to me that you have not improved yourself, politics-wise. Both states' legislatures are run by Democrats. Both have Republican governors but they don't seem to be that effective. Arnold, so far, looks like a big disappointment.
Both are high-tax states. Heck, some counties in Maryland impose their own income tax. (It may be that way in California, too.)
If you had lived in northern California you may have had a shot (so to speak) at getting a concealed weapons permit; from what I read, sheriffs in some northern counties will issue them. In Maryland, there is no way--repeat, no way--that you will get a CCW permit unless you have an "in" with someone On High. The state is "may issue" but they really are saying, "no issue." Check with any gun shop in that state if you doubt me.
Move further south for more freedom. That's my recommendation.
Awesome!
William,
I apologize for the over reaction. You hit several sore spots in your post.
1) Blood, and Platelet donations are very near and dear to my heart for reasons stated my previous response.
2) We here in the SF Bay area and California are really getting tired of people making us the butt of their jokes.
I have no problem ignoring those jokes in the course of normal discussions, however that particular post was for a call to action and in my opinion, your comments, unqualified as they were, in fact ran counter to a matter that means a great deal to me.
My anger came from the fact that the hospital in question, as with the other hospitals in the area are trying to save the lives of innocent children, as well as parents and relatives of normal people like you and me.
Once again, I apologize for my sharp toungue, but not for my frusteration with what was, in my opinion, and irresponsible and thoughtless reponse to a serious issue.
Sanity
I am a former 5 gallon club donor and have donated blood since the 70's.
Recently, I was refused and not allowed to donate again due to the fact that I lived in Germany while in the Army, back in the 70's.
Apparantly, I have been possibly exposed to Mad Cow and am no longer eligable.
Sad.
That being said, I was at the point of no longer donating after I discovered that my gift was in fact, being resold on a profit basis to hospitals.
I rubbed me the wrong way to think that my donation, which I gave for truly humanitarian reasons was in fact the key to a profit making business.
It seems to me that some sort of compensation is in order if you will take my donation, freely givem, and turn around and sell it for a profit.
Just my 2 cents.
Cheers,
knoews hound
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