My Latest Platelet Donation is heading for a 9 month old with heart problems.
 

I have AB- and my latest platelet donation is slated for a 9 month year old infant. She is having open heart surgery.

You are truly a wonderful human being for doing this. My grandson had open heart surgery at age 4 for CHD. We celebrate his success every year.

I do platelets a few times a month. She just happens to be the recipient. They usually do not tell you where the platelets are going unless an infant is involved.

I have only donated it turned out for an infant twice in the 11 years or so I have been donating platelets.

It went off with out any problems here at my end and am praying for a good result for this 9 month old infant.

Also got to watch almost all of the movie Silverado. Kind of enjoy western shoot-em ups and action movies when I am getting stuck with minor holes.

Up to 23 gallons soon donated for the One Blood count. They wanted a tally when I started donating with them in 2007 so this does not quite take into account Life South or Florida Blood Services donations in the Ocala and northern parts of the Villages and the Tampa Bay area, respectively.

Where do you go to do this?

There is a Lady Lake One Blood facility near the Villages Regional Hospital off of US 441/27.

Some of the phlebotomists are better than others even though they seem to do better and better with experience.

They have blood mobiles too at various places but these do not allow platelet donations. They do allow other donations that take longer than the whole blood.

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It is in Spanish Plaines Shopping Center.

https://www.thevillages.com/lifestyl...%20Plaines.pdf

Thanks I will look into this

They are often quite busy with the platelet, plasma, and double red blood cell donors. There are often open seats for the whole blood donors.

Depends a lot on when they give out the $10 gift cards which are good for a number of locations-- Walmart, Barnes and Noble, various restaurants, Amazon, Fandango movies, etc.

I will need to do whole blood donation to determine my blood type which I think is O but I am not sure. If I understood the material correctly they are more interested in rare types for platelets.

I am AB- which for platelets is a universal donor. Anyone can take my platelets. Very few people can take my blood though. It is only about 1% of the population who have AB- even though I know a number of them.

I think I am the opposite so donating whole blood may be a better and quicker option for me.

They will tell you what is the best option when you go into donate as well as determine your blood type. Not really positive that they do that there but I expect that they would. I started donating around 1985 to impress a blonde woman where I worked in Belmont, CA. And a woman I would run into at various law librarian conventions ( 1989 Reno? 1992 San Francisco) was donating whole blood instead. They did tell me my blood type there. She looked just like a drawing I did of a woman in a magazine that I had given to a special family in Reno, Nevada who said that it reminded them of their recently deceased daughter. And the spitting image of both this lady at Information Access Company (Belmont, CA) and the woman in the drawing who was in a lot of my law school classes. The lawyer is a top immigration attorney in San Francisco.

I still donate blood to impress various blondes and brunettes now as well.

That's pretty funny. I am more interested in doing it because you reminded me of my grandson's open heart surgery and realizing that he may have needed it.

We both have been kicking the thought around for to long. It’s time to do it. I always did give blood at work when I was young but stopped. Lazy? I don’t know.

We are committed to start and this thread did it. Thanks.

My blood type is R.

Ragu. :1rotfl: Sorry.

:1rotfl: This literally made me laugh out loud

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.


KathieI

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.

I was being facetious, graciegirl. More than half the student body of the classes at the U of Minnesota Law School were women for the classes I encountered which would be those from 1988 through the U of MN Law School Class of 1994 or so.

And I graduated from the University of Denver Graduate School of Librarianship and Information Management in May of 1984 with four women. Five of us was that Class. Or I have a picture of us five.

And yet you complain about not having a trophy wife.

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I made no such statement.

Oh, by the way, I got a private message from a French actress/lawyer back in July of 2016 asking me in French if Hollywood could be part of my thing. This was in French. I wrote back yes in French. I was the Outstanding Reader of French around 1980 at the University of Nevada, Reno. This is also where Colin Kaepernick graduated from but much later than I did.

I do Facebook with a lot of NFL quarterbacks and/or other players. As well as gymnasts, hurdlers, and many other people including many actors and actresses. Hundreds of police departments as well.

I do hope they look at my Talk of the Villages posts on occasion.

The movies coming out since that actress' private message in July of 2016 have been VERY interesting to say the least especially those in her movies or those of people she has worked with in various other movies and the wives and/or girlfriends of these various actors.

Thank You, KathieI. It is people like you who keep me posting on Talk of the Villages.