This one is for you Barefoot. :ho:

Glad to see all of the new interest, hope to see lots of new faces.

They did have a sign out that they needed more platelets donors when I went there on Thursday, August 6, 2015. I hope to be able to donate platelets a few more times in the upcoming two months.


Still feel bad I am missing the 9/11/2015 Blood Donor event put on by the Loud Boys' Group. I have been to two or three of these in the past but missed out on one of them because of too low iron.

LifeSouth Community Blood Centers - Apheresis

Platelet and other information about types of donations from Life South. I have donated a few times at Life South blood mobiles in places in or near the Villages since we moved here in June or so of 2005.

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I gave platelets yesterday. Took about 110 minutes in the chair but the time went fairly quickly as I was watching The Jackal again. Whole time spent there was about three hours from coming in the door to leaving.

I have terrible veins in the arms. Can they stick in the top side of the hand like they do for taking blood from me for test?

That's a good question. You may want to call them to find out.

Here's their Lady Lake information for the Villages Donor Center:

You guys are true American Heros.

Thanks.


I was talking with one of the workers at One Blood who is usually on the Big Red Bus. She had asked me if I lived in the Villages and I said yes in one of those very close to the Villages High School.

They collect blood from 16 year olds and up. They need their parents' permission to donate. Blood Donor Basics - Donate Blood Anyway, the One Blood worker said that the Villages High School students were the best behaved of any group of high school students who were donating blood in the area they cover that this worker experienced. That's probably the Ocala, Belleview, Summerfield and surrounding areas as well as some of the communities heading towards Orlando. :pepper2:

I used to give platelets and plasma often in NY. They made you sign a waiver about lymphocytes levels. Sure enough at one of my yearly physicals my lymphocyte levels were low. Now I donate whole blood.

I think they did away with that waiver, maybe it was determined to have no significant correlation on lymphocyte levels.

They must have done away with it because I don't even know what lymphocyte levels means. They have done away with a lot of the older restrictions, like tatoos and gay sex.

I thought those were still restrictions? Tattoos with respect to those you have had within a year and sex with other men from 1977 on?

I do think they need laws that are a bit more contextual in nature rather than these very broad based restrictions. They should have various filters anyway before the blood is used.

I was told that IF you got a tattoo from a licensed business and brought the paperwork with you that you could still donate. The same with ear piercings. The gay thing is still very controversial, I spoke out of line here. The LGBT is trying to have that ruling reversed and they are doing their own blood drives. That is making the news. I don't know what they are doing with the blood though.

I asked about gays donating blood this morning and gay women can and gay men cannot.

The Questionnaires I have filled out since 1998 or so asked about sex by a man with another man. They do ask about prostitution by women and men. I do not remember if this was the same when I donated in Belmont, CA around 1984 and Minneapolis in 1988 but assume it was as AIDS was a hot topic at that time.

My Moot Court assignment at the University of Minnesota Law School was about a male nurse and discrimination by a hospital against him for fear would spread AIDS. This was in 1987-1988.