6/23/2017 Platelet Donation.

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Old 06-23-2017, 03:37 PM
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Quite busy in the whole blood section for donors at One Blood today. There was some guy with a NYPD T-Shirt on as the only other platelet donor and he was soon gone with some goodies.

Tried to watch the movie The Finest Hours but could not remember some of the names of the workers so I dud not flag down anyone right away when the static got quite bad for some of the flick. Juanita stopped by and I asked her to remove the head phones and take a listen and she said it was the batteries in the remote control. The Finest Hours (2016) - Rotten Tomatoes

I did get to see some of the movie with the sound tolerable. Had seen it before with my older brother and sister-in-law at the Old Mill Playhouse when they were visiting from the Northern VA area.

Iron at 15.3. Last week was 15.2.

Have to lay off the donations for a few weeks as I am already at 14 for this year of 2017. And I hope to donate at the 9/11 Parrot Head Blood Drive in 2017. I have managed to get to their two previous blood drives this year.

I hope others with donate blood, platelets, plasma, or red blood cells.

I donated last Friday for platelets. You can donate every seven days but there is a limit if 24 donations per year as far as I know.

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Old 06-24-2017, 09:02 AM
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Did you get your 6 donations in for the current promotion? I am donating again on Friday, if they don't cut me off again. I got one donation canceled May 20'th. I think I will cancel 1 or 2 just so I can get back to a donation every 2 weeks again.
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Did you get your 6 donations in for the current promotion? I am donating again on Friday, if they don't cut me off again. I got one donation canceled May 20'th. I think I will cancel 1 or 2 just so I can get back to a donation every 2 weeks again.
Yes. I got that 6 platelet donations this time for the three month period. Will not get it if they do the same thing next three months and will be quite limited in how often I can donate in October-December of 2017.

Blanca mentioned that Charlie had left One Blood. She was funny sometimes. Will miss her.

I expect that our posting on here does help One Blood get more donors from TOTV readers so thanks for contributing leftyf.
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Did you get your 6 donations in for the current promotion? I am donating again on Friday, if they don't cut me off again. I got one donation canceled May 20'th. I think I will cancel 1 or 2 just so I can get back to a donation every 2 weeks again.
I made a donation appointment for around July 7 and noticed that I cannot donate until after that because of the 24 donation limit in a year. Still let me make the appointment for that July 7. So, I am out for a few weeks. Have done 14 donations so far this year. 12 platelets and twice at the Parrot Head Blood Drive for whole blood.

I have a lot of friends who are Parrot Heads.
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Charlie was there on Thursday when I was there.
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Charlie was there on Thursday when I was there.
Well maybe I got my blondes mixed up. I just was going by something Blanca told the NYPD t-shirt guy. He seems like an ex LEO from his bearing and the like.

I made six platelets appointments for the next three month starting mid- July through late September. I hope they are doing another one of these 6 platelet donations $60 rewards thing. I should be up to 20 gallons by 2018.
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It's worth donating blood just to get the plantain chips. Wife loves them but she is not close to 110 pounds, so can't donate.

O... the things we do for love, actually giving blood.

However, that place, near the closed publix, is either understaffed or mismanaged. I have waited over 30 minutes on several occasions and no one ever came to the front desk. They have lost several of my donations.
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Tal - if you get your blondes mixed up in TV, be very very careful. I've never seen as many blondes in one place. [emoji41]


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Not at One Blood now. There are a few nice African American ladies, Blanca who is a Hispanic born in Texas up by Lubbock I believe, and Juanita who is a Caucasian from one of the Dakotas. Mary has been there. She is a Caucasian from Maryland-DC. Juanita might be a little blonde in hair color.

I gave whole blood at the Parrot Head blood drive 5/11/2017 at the Fire Station south of 466A and this was one white guy and a bunch of African American girls. The whole time I was there they had Mexican-American music playing rather loudly all in Spanish. Mary stomped her foot down a little there within the fire station as they like it when I do platelets because that helps maybe 6-8 people.

I have been going to that One Blood center since around 2007 when it was at a location near the 441/27 US Post Office in a quite small place. They then moved to the bigger place near the Villages Regional Hospital. They had one worker who just retired last year who was they when I started in 2007. She volunteers at the big blood drives once in a while now.

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I just checked my online account and I can't donate again until July 16. That means I won't get the $60 this time with only 5 donations, oh well, I will still get $40. I think I will cancel a couple more after July 16 just so I don't get cut off again. This is the second time, once in May and once in June.
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I just checked my online account and I can't donate again until July 16. That means I won't get the $60 this time with only 5 donations, oh well, I will still get $40. I think I will cancel a couple more after July 16 just so I don't get cut off again. This is the second time, once in May and once in June.
Sorry to hear that. I cannot donate until around that time too or a little before. I have 14 donations already in 2017 so it makes it kind of hard to get these six donations per three months they require for the $60 gift card.

I only have 10 donations left I can make in 2017.
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I'm not sure, but I don't think they go by the calendar year. They go by the date of your last donation and count backwards until you come to the same date a year earlier. I always stay at 24 donations so I can never double up and give 2 weeks in a row. I just don't like getting my appointments canceled so much.
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I'm not sure, but I don't think they go by the calendar year. They go by the date of your last donation and count backwards until you come to the same date a year earlier. I always stay at 24 donations so I can never double up and give 2 weeks in a row. I just don't like getting my appointments canceled so much.
I got the impression that is how it works too. I just look at my past donations and set the number on the page for 25.

I donated quite a bit the Summer of 2016. And I have to be very careful with scheduled appointments this Summer of 2017.

Hopefully all our posting about donating platelets gets other interested in checking this out. Each platelet donation helps 6-8 people I believe?
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