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Originally Posted by OrangeBlossomBaby
I've been donating almost every month for the past couple of years. Usually about an hour's worth of platelets, relaxing on a recliner and reading a book on my cell phone and eating Lorna Doones. You're allowed to donate every 2 weeks, but I always have to wait for my hemoglobin to return to normal since I'm anemic (I take iron tablets every other day), so I spread my donations further apart.
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One Blood had various platelet donors who came around the same time of the month as I do give or take a day. I would often see the same faces every so months. And the same workers were there for a long time but a few retired. I am almost up to 42 gallons of blood donated. I did not donate much before 1997. Once in Belmont, CA around 1985 and again around 1989 in Minneapolis, MN.
I have donated a few times at One Blood mobiles in the parking lots of Walmart, Winn-Dixie, CVS, Publix and other places.
My last donation at the Waterfront Inn went bust as the phlebotomist went for a vein that has little scar tissue around it. But that was for the reason that it is a very complicated vein and most of the people who have tried to usually muck it up.