I just gave blood.....?
963598
I'm surprised you made it home!  Don't cut yourself now or air will come out.
780874
I am really sorry to read that. Mine is B+, pl lemme know if the hospital can exchange the blood, i mean taking mine and giving the required O+. I am in chennai. u can contact me by clicking my icon.
818332
I believe it is a personal choice, I give blood as i am B positive, I am also on the bone marrow transplant reg, i have left my innards to ever who wants them,  Over the years I have donated over 50 pints of blood.\nYour question is very deep, peoples beliefs are precious to them, think of all the people that want to donate, blood and organs can not because of health issues and religion.\n Two questions for you do you give Blood/plasma are you on the donor register,\nAs my friend can not give blood anymore every other pint i donate i do it for her.
475722
I give blood all the time but I never have gotten paid for it. It isn't unheard of thugh. Otherwise, I've always had a good experience with it. You could pass out and depending on the person doing it you could get bruising around the area and there are always very small risks of infections. It's bad if you're anemic but they test for that before hand. If you d, be sure to eat first fruits/grains and sweets are good and they usually provide cookies. Also drink a lot of water or juice. The only things that have ever happened to me was being really tired for like an hour afterwards.
644190
Save a stranger's life , I was driving  out of the city, like at 2 am in the morning , in the middle of nowhere , i was heading out to a remote resort and i saw a car crash , most people in my country would have thought it was a set up for being robbed, but i don't know why i stooped , and i saw the driver badly hurt , pull him out of the car , start talking to him , drove him to nearest town , there was a health station only , no clinic no hospital, but that was the only thing available for miles and he even got a blood transfusion from me , after we was stable, , drove him back to a clinic in the city , talked to the police after wards for like 2 hours , never made it to my weekend getaway,\n2 days later i talked with the guy and his family  and told me that the doctors said he would not had made it if i had not pick him up, later they invited to their church for some sort of ceremony , which i decline , they were really religious type , and i represented everything they hated on a sinner , so after a while this guy tried to save me from my life as a payback for what i did for him \nSo it was amazing, saving someone that by definition thinks all gay people should go to hell, and now my blood gay blood is ruining trough his veins ,  but despite of who he was i can't help to feel like whoaaa
903365
I've never seen any place that donates for giving blood (unless you count a cookie and juice as payment). However, many places will pay you to donate plasma, which is not any more painful than giving blood despite what others here may tell you. It's more time consuming than giving blood, since you need to be examined first (which took a few hours) and it takes over an hour to donate plasma. But you can do it frequently (2x per week, I think) since your blood is returned to you immediately after the plasma is separated via the same needle.\n\nThe place where I used to do it in Iowa paid about $10-20 per week, with incentives like "if you donate 4 or more times per month, you get an extra $50."\n\nSo if that's something that interests you, call around in your area and you might have a plasma donation center close by. It's really not that big a deal and you'll save lives while earning money. \nGood luck.
40256
I have donated over three gallon of blood. Not only are you helping other people, you are refreshing your own blood supply. It's just a wonderful thing to do, and it doesn't hurt! More people should be donating blood,there is a large shortage of blood plasma.
226974
Taking care of my uncle.  Had a full day planned - drop some stuff off at a charity on the way to his doctor's appt, pick some wine up for him to drink, stop at the Food Emporium near the return bus stop for groceries, stop at the bank to get cash for Xmas gifts for the staff at our apartment (we were away), stop at Duane Reade for milk, stop at the corner for bananas & other fruit, vegetables.  And somewhere in the middle get lunch since we were fasting for the doctor's visit.\nPlan didn't work out.  The charity had moved.  The first downtown bus wouldn't let me on with the stuff I hadn't been able to donate.  Getting off the next bus (I'd rearranged the stuff so I could close the cart), while running, trying to make up time, I managed to trip over the cart, went sprawling -- scraping shins, bruising backs (Don't ask me how I managed to bruise the backs) of my hands, and smacking my cheek into the sidewalk. (Luckily - no scrape. Doc says I'll have black eye.) I also bruised my shoulder but didn't realize that until this evening.  Someone who worked at the building was quite solicitous & wanted to call for help, was convinced I was badly hurt & didn't realize it - but we were late for the doctor - just across the street.  \n\nSo we ended up with two appointments (one for me and one for my uncle).  My uncle, as I suspected, was not well.  We were sent immediately to get a chest x-ray.  I had asked and there weren't any places nearby to donate the stuff I had brought, so, charity went out the window and I put cart and contents next to a trash bin on the street.  We took a cab to get the xrays. The cab left us off at the wrong street - but we wandered around inside the hospital until we found the right department. After the first xray, they decided they needed another more sophisticated one. They needed me to help my uncle into position. (He's had several strokes & isn't always able to follow directions well.)\n\nWe waited for our doctor to talk to the xray doctor. Then they decided a cat scan was needed. We sat for awhile again. But my uncle was just about faint from hunger - it was now about 3:30pm and he hadn't had anything to eat since the night before.  We were told there was enough time for us to go up to the cafeteria to get something to eat. So we did.  After the cat scan, I thought we were supposed to find out whether he would have to be admitted to the hospital or not.  The technician knew nothing about it - said I should call my doctor from the courtesy phone back in the waiting room.  Someone else was on the phone - forever.  Finally got to use the phone - took 3 or 4 tries to figure out that I didn't need to use the area code - weird.  Turns out that it takes awhile to get the results of cat scans so we could go home - but my uncle (86) needed to use the bathroom first.  While waiting, the doctor who reads the cat scans came by looking for us!! (nice hospital - Mt. Sinai, nice people!)  Said he thought it likely the fluid in my uncle's lungs was related to his heart and not likely to be cancer. I breathed a sigh of relief. With the heart, there's more time for us to be together, more things that can be done to improve his health.  \nWe got a couple of buses home.  The elevator was broken. AGAIN.  We had to take the front elevator, walk up a flight of stairs, walk across the roof and down a flight of stairs.  This took awhile. This broken elevator routine is getting old - even if my uncle weren't sick.  \n\nRemoved the pill from the pill box that the doctor decided my uncle shouldn't take any more, gave the rest with a glass of water to my uncle for him to take.  Fixed the top sheet on his bed - it keeps coming out because the mattress is too deep. Put my uncle to bed as he was exhausted from the long day. Called my mother (uncle's sister) to see if what she had before we left could be related to or provide some clue as to what he has now.
209998
That is from the Old Testiment and that doesn't apply now.  The blood of Jesus has washed our sins away.  If you have a personal conviction about this then maybe you should talk to a counselor at your church.
772844
I know when you donate blood you can't donate even if you take aspirin. You might want to find out if you can because people who have medical problems can't donate.
922148
That is blood pooling under the skin from the needle puncturing your vein...this too shall pass...your body will re-absorb the blood.
486392
Wow!  Way to Go!\n\nHey!  You might be working those hand OVERTIME!\n\nI suggest you talk with a medical professional just to help settle your mind.  Don't feel embarrassed.  They get asked this stuff all the time.\n\nMy husband is a doctor.  I'll ask him about this.\n\n(a few hours later)\nI asked him.  He said if the blood was a bright red, the was likely a ruptured artery.  If the blood was a dark red, then, a ruptured vein.  He also said it could be a result of a kidney stone (but not likely).  In the case of ruptured vein, take a break from the ritual.\n\nHe used more technical terms and said much more, but that's the gist that I recall.
973969
it sounds like the lab tech who took your blood was a little rough or in a hurry and gave you quite a bruise.  a little soreness and slight bruising is normal, but I'm not sure about yours.  you might call your dr.'s office and see if they think it needs to be seen about.\nwhen in doubt, have it checked out.
564697
Nothing much.\n\nThe first point to realise is that the blood you donate will almost certainly not be transfused as whole blood. It will be separated into platelets, red blood cells, plasma and so forth. Red blood cells (RBCs),plasma and platelets have no nuclei and so have none of you DNA worth speaking of.\n\nThe only part of the blood that contains measurable DNA is the white blood cells. They won't get transfused in most cases. But even if whole blood was transfused the WBCs only have a life expectancy of a few weeks. So unless someone committed a crime within weeks of a massive whole blood transfusion it simply isn't an issue. The odds of anyone who receives a massive whole blood transfusion being able to commit a crime is very slim to say the least.\n\nIn the ridiculously improbable scenario that someone does commit a crime AND cuts themselves AFTER a massive whole blood transfusion you are still in the clear. The blood will contain genetic material form you and him and several other donors. That will not produce a positive match for your DNA. At worst it will indicate that you and at least three other people were all there bleeding in the same spot at the same time, which nobody will believe given the blood spatter pattern.\n\nRelax, it's just not an issue.
258677
call the blood banks.
783184
this may just be your body ..giving blood today is a serious thing and you are nice to want to give but I myself can't so the other problem is the new meds may be to strong for you it is hard to be rid of anemia I have had it all my life you can do everything right it is your body and you have to live with it kara
1033785
Its possible...I wouldnt worry too much, I would assume that the blood center who drew the blood tested it for a variety of dieases before they would hand it over to the hospital.