They are having a special blood drive tomorrow, that's right, SUNDAY. They need blood and platelets really bad because they had to shut down the clinics in South Florida because of the hurricane. If anyone can go, they sure would appreciate it.

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Will donate as soon as i return to the villages. Do they offer a free cholesterol test when donating blood?

Yes, they do tell you what your cholesterol levels are, but I'm not sure how accurate they are because when I get mine checked at the DR for my annual physical, I have to fast. The one at Oneblood is different, you have to eat breakfast first so I have always wondered if there is any accuracy to it. I know that IF I have a big steak the night before giving blood, my cholesterol levels are really high. If I have fish/chicken and vegetables for a few days before, they are really low. I feel they are accurate to an extent, I just don't know what it is.

I have always wondered about the accuracy of these measurements when they ask us to fast before talking them unless you fast with some regularity.

I do like the cholesterol history you can look at if you have donated at One Blood for a while. They will show you the last ten counts of your cholesterol. Mine show a good range in the healthy measurements.

Gave platelets on 9/10/2015 at the One Blood Villages Donation Center
 

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Gave another few bags of platelets yesterday while watching most of Casino Royale.

If anyone is going into give blood/platelets/red blood cells/plasma, etc. soon Blanca at the Villages Donor Center had been asking about a movie playing at her gym. She wanted to see the ending. It sounds like it is Southpaw. I have not seen it so could not give her the information about which film this is. I only go into give platelets every 10-25 days.

Good job, keep it up. I am almost tapped out for the year. We can only donate 24 times a year, so I have a break coming.

Good for you. I am finding that my donating platelets cuts into my ability to donate whole blood. I had wanted to donate at the Loud Boys Group's Blood Drive on 10-10-2015 but this donation on Thursday 09-09-2015 made me ineligible for a few months. Something about volume of blood.

I'm not entirely sure how it works either. The girls at the donor center said that when they feed your info into the computer it decides if it take 1, 2, or 3 units. Lately I have been donating 3 units per visit. They tell me when to donate whole blood because my iron will get too high for platelets A whole blood donation drops the iron count for a while. I just do what they tell me, they are great.