You should tell them that at One Blood in Lady Lake. Terri, Yulonda, Natasha, Blanca, and Juanita would get a kick out of that. There is a man there too once in a while but I tend to forget their names and they seem to have floaters in training as well even if some of these are extremely attractive women.

One guy looked a lot like the main bad guy in The Walking Dead but about twice the actor's weight. Negan. I thought about saying "We are all Negan" to him but thought better of it as he might be the one sticking me with a needle at some point!

They usually do not tell anyone how the operation went. You just hope for the best. I have donated platelets now maybe 80 times and only two of these were for infants. The very first one I did as they called me and begged me to come in and this one.

Thank you, Tal, for donating as you have a rare blood type. I donate blood as well although I have a more common type. I have several close friends who have needed blood and realize how important it is to donate.

Donating platelets takes from 2 to 3 hours from when you go in from when you leave. Sometimes more if the machines are slow that day. Has something to do with the heat and how much H20 the donors have in their systems.

The whole blood donations from entry to exit from the facility or blood mobile usually only take 20 minutes, if that.

Tal, Kudos to you for donating platelets. I have donated them a few times several years ago, but I can no longer sit in the chair for that long. I still donate whole blood a few times a year. It really is not an unpleasant experience to donate whole blood, and I am kind of a wimp :). The whole process from signing in, answering the screening questions and the actual blood collection process takes me about 45-50 minutes.

What is interesting to me is how the screening technology has changed in the past few years. It used to be a paper questionnaire. Now up here in the Chicago area, the screening questions are answered on a tablet.

One Blood has tablets, too. They have 49 questions on them. Some of these are quite personal.

The change to tablets happened a year or two ago.

My favorite question is one that Lifesource (Chicago area blood collection agency) just started asking a few years ago. "Have you been in jail, prison or any other correctional institution for more than 72 hours in the past year?" I'm always tempted to answer, "Can I count my place of employment in that category?" :)

And I do go to jail every day (literally) because I teach there!

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They have something like that as a question with One Blood.

One is about sex and money ever taken in exchange. Most of my dates take a lot of wining and dining as well as many other things to get on base. Or many texts, letters, and meetings. And some of the trophy wives in the Villages... probably would not be with these husbands unless they had very nice houses, cars, vacations abroad, etc.

I use to donate blood till I got in stationed in UK for few years.

That does seem to knock people out of donating.

I had wanted to travel to Africa some day and that also seems to disqualify but I do not know the details about countries and time frames. Mad cow disease seems to be the big worry for working in the UK. Donating Blood & Platelets: Restrictions Related to International Travel & Immigration | Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Malaria for many other tropical area countries.

I am very proud of you Tal, that is a wonderful thing you do. Thank you very much for your commitment to this service.


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Tal, Listen carefully. There are a lot of beautiful, smart, women, who contributed as much or more to the family coffers as their husbands. Most people with good marriages each think the other is a prize.

Tal. Speaking of sex, I am not sure how many women over the age of 50 want to date someone in their 50's or 60's who still lives at home with his parents. I am sure the wining and dining is difficult based on that one fact alone...

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Yes. But few people who live at home with their parents are getting questions about whether they like kids or other such questions from first rate actresses. I have four degrees and am listed in about 14 Marquis Who's Who volumes and have been nominated to 24 of these. I expect for work I have done for survivors/victims of crimes while living with my parents or helping out relatives in various states. And I have been doing this since late 1991. Fighting for survivors/victims of crimes using the knowledge gained from these four degrees-- earned at five schools in five different states-- as well from the connections made at these colleges and universities as well as via Facebook, Findlaw, e-mails to Court Administrators and many others, Facebook, personal meetings, texts, and telephone calls. You can do quite a lot for other people especially when Hollywood smells a very good story to tell at some later date.

I also hope some of these first rate actresses read Talk of the Villages. I have been linking it to my Facebook page.