Posted on 05/28/2005 1:16:07 AM PDT by echoBoomer
I believe "O Neg" blood is a universal doner,
"O Neg" is universal, but if you have O Neg blood type you can not recive any other type.
I wouldn't give one thin dime to the Red Cross, much less a drop of our precious "O Neg" blood.
A college friend had a parttime job driving the blood center van. He drove around wearing those wax Halloween vampire fangs....
Maybe LA needs some vampires to collect blood.
I wonder how much of this blood shortage is due to gang violence?
I have A+ blood, that`s because I am numero uno, top of the heap, King of the hill, A number one...THeeeeeeese liitle town bluuues...arrre melting awaaay..
I'm A-negative.
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I wouldn't give one thin dime to the Red Cross, much less a drop of our precious "O Neg" blood.
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I don't get it. Explain why not, and "our precious". I'm not following that.
I donated (I'm O-) about 5 weeks ago. What do you find wrong with that?
O+ =38%
O- =6% (universal)
AB-= 0.5% (most rare)
B- =2%
I have O-Negative blood, but the Red Cross won't even talk to me anymore. First I spent a year in England, which is considered a high risk country, then I was sick and had to have nasty drugs that linger in the body for life, so I can never donate blood again.
See the links above.
No one is asking u to give to the ARC, but please give somewhere. O neg is the choice for newborn transfusion, traumatic blood loss in emergencies. It has no A antibodies and no B antibodies- So every blood type can safely receive it. However, an O Neg newborn can only receive O neg even after a type and crossmatch. Think about that because you are O Neg. If you experienced blood loss due to an accident, you would be counting on that O neg donor.
It requires no type and cross, when you cannot hear a blood pressure to due to voluminous blood loss- O neg is first on the scene. Somewhere a baby will need O neg, or someone's wife, husband or mother.
Whatever you do not like about the ARC is cool with me, I just work to save lives. Just give somewhere- not a plasma center though- those are traditionally wasting precious O Neg on diagnostic plasma.
I have O neg and have donated many times. Once it saved a kids life . The took two pints and it really sappped my energy but wow what a feeling.
But to give a drop to the red cross isn't in the cards.
I refuse to give to this group of anti American anti Israel
thugs.
And don't get me going on the difference of red cresent and red cross.
A local blood bank yes as long as it isn't affiliated with the red cross.
Good for you donating blood.
I give Apheresis myself,I once went to visit a friend at Vanderbilt Hospital and got lost and ended up in the Childrens department.The saddest thing I`ve ever seen,these little boys & girls with cancer.They need plateletes due to the chemo,they`ll hemmorage without the transfussion of platletes.
The International Red Cross,They`re rats though
Me too. I gave as much as I could until they started the 'time in UK' qualifier. Now I can't give anymore.
Do you know if other donor centers have the same restriction?
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