MacRumors 2011 Blood Drive!

[Monkeyfoahead]

Hey, So this is my first post on these forums. I'm what you would call a "forum lurker" and I finally pulled the trigger and registered . I donated blood at a city near my college on yesterday!!!

 

[eawmp1]

Hey, So this is my first post on these forums. I'm what you would call a "forum lurker" and I finally pulled the trigger and registered . I donated blood at a city near my college on yesterday!!!

Congrats! 2 excellent decisions (donating, and posting) in as many days.

 

[Shaun.P]

My parents and I donated Wednesday! I'm in the black band. I think this was my 14th time donating whole blood.

I'm O- so I get calls every 2 months begging for me to donate. I wish I could do it more often.

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As I was saying to Doctor Q - Made my 3rd donation but it was april 27th

Can I encourage everyone to donate! the nurses are nice, and the needle isn't painful at all! plus you're saving lives!

keep up the good work!

Had my regular blood donation today. Glad it was May and Friday the 13th. I am up to 23 pints at current location. Next one is 3 gallons. Thanks for the blood drive, MacRumors.

Hey, So this is my first post on these forums. I'm what you would call a "forum lurker" and I finally pulled the trigger and registered . I donated blood at a city near my college on yesterday!!!

Thanks Macrumors, I donated Blood!

Well done guys! You've gotten into the spirit and your support during the blood drive is greatly appreciated!

The honour roll has been updated with your donations!

 

[laurenr]

I was just checking one of the links posted for guidelines to donating. Can someone tell me, if you know, why a person needs to weigh 110 lbs in order to donate blood? I am perfectly healthy in every way, but being only 5'2" tall, I weigh a few pounds less than their specified minimal weight limit. Seems they would cut out a huge section of possible donors with this rule.

 

[Doctor Q]

I was just checking one of the links posted for guidelines to donating. Can someone tell me, if you know, why a person needs to weigh 110 lbs in order to donate blood? I am perfectly healthy in every way, but being only 5'2" tall, I weigh a few pounds less than their specified minimal weight limit. Seems they would cut out a huge section of possible donors with this rule.

It's for your safety, to make sure they don't take too much blood volume out of you.

The amount of blood in a person depends on how big their body is. If people weigh less or are short they have less blood. If they weigh more or are tall they have more blood. If they take a pint of blood out of Kirstie Alley it's a smaller percentage of blood volume than if they take a pint out of a supermodel.

That's also why some large people are able to donate more than one unit at a time, while small people can't. In theory they could take proportionally less and less for people who have small bodies, but it's not worth the expense and trouble to take less than a pint, so that produces an absolute minimum body size.

 

[eawmp1]

I was just checking one of the links posted for guidelines to donating. Can someone tell me, if you know, why a person needs to weigh 110 lbs in order to donate blood? I am perfectly healthy in every way, but being only 5'2" tall, I weigh a few pounds less than their specified minimal weight limit. Seems they would cut out a huge section of possible donors with this rule.

Short people got no reason.

A unit of blood, the smaller you are, constituteS a larger percentage of your total circulating volume. It's a safety cutoff to limit side effects in donors.

 

[Jeff Meredith]

Had my regular blood donation today. Glad it was May and Friday the 13th. I am up to 23 pints at current location. Next one is 3 gallons. Thanks for the blood drive, MacRumors.

Thanks for moving this to the right place

 

[DoubleVision19]

Didn't know that this thread existed. Just to let you know that I've been a blood donor ever since 1992. My last donation was 2weeks ago.

 

[dmr727]

Great job everyone! It's good to see everyone doing this.

 

[stridemat]

Great job everyone! It's good to see everyone doing this.

Are you eligible for blood donation?

 

[dmr727]

Are you eligible for blood donation?

Normally yes, but donation forces me away from my job for 72 hours. I just started a new gig, and while in training I'm required to have some flexibility in my schedule that three days away won't allow. I'll donate as soon as I'm done with training!

 

[shaynes]

Just got done giving 1 unit here in LA. I used to donate regularly but had gotten out of the habit for a few years. Thanks to MacRumors for reminding me that I should start again!

 

[VulchR]

I can't donate because I have a blood disorder - but I used to (loved the cookies and juice afterward).

It is great news to see so many people volunteering to do this!

 

[spillproof]

One more week in May! We're doing good but we can always use more!

 

[Shaun.P]

One more week in May! We're doing good but we can always use more!

I'm donating tomorrow - hopefully with one of my friends.

I'll be sure to post here.

If anyone else is debating whether to donate blood try to donate in the next week!!!

 

[Shaun.P]

I donated one pint of blood today!

Quite a quick experience this time around. I got seen straight away and got my iron levels tested. This involves you getting your finger pricked with the top of a needle in order to test some droplets of blood. My iron reading came back as 163. A minimum of 135 is required to donate.

After that I was asked what arm I would like to use - I have no preference so said I didn't mind. I was then taken to a bed in order to donate. About 8 minutes later I was done.

This was my 9th donation.

 

[jbachandouris]

I donated yesterday May 24th. Sorry, bandage is already off.

I donate 4 times a year. In NY they have a program called Champions for Life.

 

[Doctor Q]

I donate 4 times a year. In NY they have a program called Champions for Life.

Good for you, jbachandouris (and Shaun.P and shaynes and everyone else who's reported donating here).

I hadn't previously heard of Champions for Life but it was easy enough to find the web page. It says you're in an "exclusive club" but we hope it will be as un-exclusive as possible!

Hmmm... They send you a pin if you join the club. Don't they think they use enough sharp points on people already?

 

[skinuca]

3 units of platelets given and a nice piece of coffee cake consumed at Stanford's blood center. Cool idea to have the drive. I had been to busy the last few months to go, but the post reminded me. Was 5th donation this year. I make it again on monday.

Oh yeah, love this site. Read it often over the years, but nearly never post.

 

[iwbyte]

2nd donation this drive. Another 3 units platelets donation. also get bonus points at redcrossracing.com for donating over the holiday weekend. they now let you exchange points for bestbuy reward certificates too.

 

[FutureBlake]

Add one more pint to the tally! And they gave me a neat blood drop lapel pen (along with Lorna Doones and Gatorade) for my efforts.

Almost forgot to mention - it was whole blood. "A Positive" - any score higher than A+?

 

[Shaun.P]

Congratulations!

Just got done giving 1 unit here in LA. I used to donate regularly but had gotten out of the habit for a few years. Thanks to MacRumors for reminding me that I should start again!

I donated yesterday May 24th. Sorry, bandage is already off.

I donate 4 times a year. In NY they have a program called Champions for Life.

3 units of platelets given and a nice piece of coffee cake consumed at Stanford's blood center. Cool idea to have the drive. I had been to busy the last few months to go, but the post reminded me. Was 5th donation this year. I make it again on monday.

Oh yeah, love this site. Read it often over the years, but nearly never post.

2nd donation this drive. Another 3 units platelets donation. also get bonus points at redcrossracing.com for donating over the holiday weekend. they now let you exchange points for bestbuy reward certificates too.

Add one more pint to the tally! And they gave me a neat blood drop lapel pen (along with Lorna Doones and Gatorade) for my efforts.

Almost forgot to mention - it was whole blood. "A Positive" - any score higher than A+?

Well done! The honour roll has been updated with your details!


We are now approaching the final days of the blood drive - with donations being tallied up until Tuesday. If you're thinking about donating, please do so before Tuesday! Remember, you can donate either blood, red blood cells, platelets or plasma!

 

[Doctor Q]

The MacRumors 2011 Blood Drive has ended but we hope you'll continue to donate blood and platelets. Results of the blood drive and a list of donors are posted here.

Final tally:

Blood: 28 donations, 32 units

Platelets: 7 donations, 15 units

Plasma: 1 donation, 2 units

Totals: 33 donors, 34 donations, 49 units​

 

[Shaun.P]

The MacRumors 2011 Blood Drive has ended but we hope you'll continue to donate blood and platelets. Results of the blood drive and a list of donors are posted here.

Final tally:

Blood: 30 donations, 32 units

Platelets: 7 donations, 15 units

Plasma: 1 donation, 2 units

Totals: 35 donors, 36 donations, 49 units​

I would like to personally thank everyone who participated! Congratulations and well done!

I would also like to thank Doctor Q for helping to make the blood drive become a reality for the second time running.

Thanks everyone!

 

[hulugu]

I donated again, but forgot to post. Dr. Q's PM reminded me.

Cheers to everyone who donated.