MacRumors 2017 Blood Drive!

[bunnspecial]

Wow! We really increased Platelet donations over previous years. Did people start donating platelets because they noticed others here doing it? If so, that's fantastic! Good work Doctor Q and the MacRumors community.

Even though I do donate regularly, I made a point of going every other week through the course of May. For me, that means I doubled my platelet count during the blood drive for last year, although I know that I alone didn't contribute to all of the increased count.

I'm quite happy to see the wonderful turn-out for this year.

BTW, on my last trip in, I went ahead and booked through the end of August. It gets a bit iffy for me past there as the semester starting messes with my work schedule, but I'll get appointments set when that time comes.

 

[Doctor Q]

Final Tally

The month of the MacRumors 2017 Blood Drive has ended, although anyone with a June blood or platelet donation appointment is encouraged to tell us about it.

We encourage eligible people to donate blood and platelets at any time of year, to spread the word about how important it is, to sign up for the organ donor registry and bone marrow registry if you haven't already done so, and to encourage others to do the same.

Blood Drive totals:

Blood: 35 donors, 36 donations, 36 units

Platelets: 9 donors, 18 donations, 43 units

Plasma: 1 donor, 1 donation, 1 unit

Totals: 45 donors, 55 donations, 80 units

1 new organ donor signup​

Thanks and congratulations to the forum members on our Honor Roll:

7thson, aardwolf, AngerDanger, bunnspecial, chaleyer, Deathoffleas, displaced, Doctor Q, FloatingBones, hallux, JamesMike's team and friends, jbachandouris, LethalOptical, Phil A., rcappo, shagberg1, skinuca, Slade Mahoney, T Coma, tarkeybear, Timelordprime, trimblet, Waughy, wiesel59, Wizpod96​

and to all other blood, platelet, and plasma donors!

Special mention to bunnspecial for a record-setting 12 units of platelet donations recorded during a single MacRumors Blood Drive, the first ever in double-digits.

Cumulative

In 8 years the MacRumors Blood Drives have recorded donations of 469 units of blood and platelets and plasma (281 blood + 180 platelets + 8 plasma) in 359 donations by 193 distinct donors. 78 of them donated more than once. We have recorded 8 new signups for the organ donor registry and 3 new signups for the bone marrow registry. We've heard from many forum members whose lives were affected by blood, platelet, or bone marrow donations.

Special mention to G4-power for participating in 7 MacRumors Blood Drives, jbachandouris and rcappo and Timelordprime for participating in 6 MacRumors Blood Drives, Timelordprime (13 donations, 29 units) and 7thson (11 donations, 26 units) for the most total donations and most units of platelets during our Drives, JamesMike for the largest donations by a group (61 total), spillproof and family for the highest total units of blood (8), and 7thson for the highest total units of platelets (29).

Thanks everyone! Keep donating, and plan ahead for next year's MacRumors Blood Drive in May 2018!

 

[JamesMike]

Final Tally

The month of the MacRumors 2017 Blood Drive has ended, although anyone with a June blood or platelet donation appointment is encouraged to tell us about it.

We encourage eligible people to donate blood and platelets at any time of year, to spread the word about how important it is, to sign up for the organ donor registry and bone marrow registry if you haven't already done so, and to encourage others to do the same.

Blood Drive totals...

A few of my young teammates have been talking trash to two other teams and have challenged them to donate blood. We shall see how that turns out next May.

 

[G4-power]

Phew! Made it during June at last.
I donated 450 ml of whole blood on June 16th.
We get the mobile blood donation center in my current hometown only once every two weeks, so it's a bit difficult to schedule the donation if you're busy at work.

 

[Doctor Q]

G4-power has participated in all 8 MacRumors Blood Drives!

Updated total for this Blood Drive:

Blood: 36 donors, 37 donations, 37 units

Platelets: 9 donors, 18 donations, 43 units

Plasma: 1 donor, 1 donation, 1 unit

Totals: 46 donors, 56 donations, 81 units - an all-time record!

1 new organ donor signup​

Cumulative totals for the 8 MacRumors Blood Drives:

470 units of blood and platelets and plasma (282 blood + 180 platelets + 8 plasma)

360 donations

193 distinct donors - congratulations to them all!​

 

[ProTruckDriver]

I want to thank all the Blood Donors in this thread.

I always gave blood until a few years ago when I was diagnosed with Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia (2012) and Agammaglobulinemia (2015).

Thank you all, you are all life savers. Kudos to all.

 

[Slade Mahoney]

I haven't downloaded the Red Cross blood app, but I notice it has "teams". Is there a MacRumors team, or any other interesting ones that would make it worth downloading?

 

[Doctor Q]

Good question. Our drive isn't limited to Red Cross donation centers, but having one or more teams might boost participation.

 

[Kuron]

Thank you to everybody who donated blood.

 

[PJM83]

Oh crap I missed writing it in here this year but I sure donated blood. Good job to all who participated and thank you.