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MacRumors 2022 Blood Drive

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MacRumors is pleased to announce our Thirteenth Annual MacRumors Blood Drive, throughout the month of May 2022. With your help we can save lives by increasing the number of donations of blood, platelets, and plasma. While most blood drives are specific to a geographic location, our blood drive is online and worldwide.

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Over the past 12 years, MacRumors Blood Drives have recorded donations of 1056 units units of blood, platelets, and plasma, and celebrated new signups for the organ donor and bone marrow registries. We've heard from first-time donors, from users who donate regularly, and from users whose lives were saved by the blood donations of strangers.

This year's featured blood donor is user chengengaun, who lives in Singapore. chengengaun has participated in the MacRumors Blood Drive and has also registered for the bone marrow registry.

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How to participate in the MacRumors Blood Drive - during May 2022

  1. If you are an eligible donor, schedule a blood, platelet, or plasma donation (see FAQ), at any donation center near you. Post in the MacRumors 2022 Blood Drive! thread to tell us about it. Also post if you register as an organ donor or register for the bone marrow registry (see FAQ). We'll add all donors and registrants to our Honor Roll.
  2. If you aren't eligible to donate, please encourage someone else to make a donation, and let us know. If they donate, you'll both be added to our Honor Roll.
  3. Share our message with friends, relatives, and followers. Thank the people who post in the MacRumors 2022 Blood Drive! thread.

How to participate in the MacRumors Blood Drive - from June 2022 to April 2023

In between the MacRumors Blood Drives each May, record your donations on our Team MacRumors page. We'll tally your donations and count them for the MacRumors Blood Drive next May.
  1. Go to the Team MacRumors page and click PLEDGE TO GIVE BLOOD. (Bookmark the page for the future.)
  2. Fill in your MacRumors username as your first name and @ macrumors as your last name.
  3. In the comments field, tell us what type of donation and how many units, e.g., 1 unit of whole blood, 2 units of platelets, etc.
  4. The email address and zip code fields don't matter. MacRumors won't use that information.

We look forward to another successful MacRumors Blood Drive!

Article Link: MacRumors 2022 Blood Drive
 
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https://www.macrumors.com/2022/05/01/macrumors-2022-blood-drive/
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I have been donating every 2 months for the last 2 years. Since COVID started.

I have been taking a break.

They prick your finger every time to draw blood for some test. since I have been going so often the nerves in my finger hurt from all the pricks.
 
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I would love to but do to some place's I've been I am precluded from donating. per the Red Cross. Last time I tried hey nixed it.
 
Freeangel1 said:
They prick your finger every time to draw blood for some test. since I have been going so often the nerves in my finger hurt from all the pricks.
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Funny you should mention this. I'm a regular donor; I find the finger prick to measure hemoglobin levels the most annoying part of donating. My local donation center used to prick at the center of the fingerprint. Ouch! About 6 months ago, they shifted to the side of the finger. This is a huge improvement: less pain and faster healing. I thanked them for improving the procedure. This technique is fairly well-known; these instructions are for diabetics who self-test. The next time you go in, ask them to do it to the side. If they balk, ask to see the supervisor and repeat the instructions to them. It's worth it for the Red Cross (or whoever you donate with) to get this right. Other donors will appreciate your efforts to have them up their game with a smooth painless experience for donors.

Fun fact about hemoglobin tests: after raising my Vitamin D3 supplementation to 5000IU/day, my blood hemoglobin levels regularly report at a bit above 15gm/dL. This may be related to higher efficiency recycling old blood cells. Anyone who has difficulty with low hemoglobin levels may benefit from raising D3 supplementation.
 
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My donation 2 weeks ago was #151, with many of them having been Matched Platelets or mostly plasma.
Def support getting the initial prick on the side of the finger and use diff finger each time.
Big news here in Australia regarding people who lived in the UK during the mad cow era: "We’re delighted to have received a decision from the Therapeutic Goods Administration, which will enable people who lived in the United Kingdom between 1980 and 1996 to donate blood." https://www.lifeblood.com.au/blood/eligibility/donating-after-travelling/UK.
Catching covid 10 days ago will delay me a little, but I try to go every 3-4 weeks.
Not sure of your figures in the US, but in Oz, 1 in 3 will need a blood product at some time.... but only 1 in 30 donate... encourage others if you can.
 
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EightBitJoe said:
Knock yourself out, straights. ??
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If you're gay you can donate as long as you haven't had sex with a guy in 3 months; they changed it in 2020. It's still kind of ridiculous but at least it's not 12 months anymore or never. Or you could just lie about it like one of my friends does, but I would never do that. I was able to donate a few times last year as I've been celibate since covid started although I'm trying to date again.

I have diabetes so the fingerpick is nothing. I'm hoping the watch will eventually be able to do blood sugar tracking but I think that is a few years away.
 
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EightBitJoe said:
Knock yourself out, straights. ??
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Came here to leave a similar comment. Been in a monogamous relationship with the same person for over a decade, but the FDA bans my O neg solely because I married a dude. I am glad to see the updates to the blood ban lowering the celibacy window, but I’m not killing my marriage bed for any duration of time when the non-MSM crowd can have all the sex they want with all the partners they want and waltz into a Red Cross without ever knowing their own status.
 
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EightBitJoe said:
Knock yourself out, straights. ??
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I would, but I lived in the UK between 1980 and 1986 so am not permitted. That seemed a sensible precaution in the 80s and early 90s, but I think it's reasonable to reexamine the policy now that BSE has been contained for many years and incidences of CJD worldwide are miniscule. Many healthy potential donors are needlessly excluded.
 
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TJovian said:
Came here to leave a similar comment. Been in a monogamous relationship with the same person for over a decade, but the FDA bans my O neg solely because I married a dude. I am glad to see the updates to the blood ban lowering the celibacy window, but I’m not killing my marriage bed for any duration of time when the non-MSM crowd can have all the sex they want with all the partners they want and waltz into a Red Cross without ever knowing their own status.
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I'm also O neg and gay. I completely agree with you and I would add they must not need our blood as badly as they keep saying or they would change their policy. I am certainly not going to lie to give my blood either after all the years of being in the closet because of people who put policies in place like this. Hell they are the same type of people that put us in the closet in the first place.
 
For all that takes the time to donate, I mean of
I have to go by this from the bottom of my heart, thank thank you thank you and thank you. Without your kindness to share your blood, Iwould probably be dead right now. I was diagnosed a very rare of cancer called Myelofibrosis, or in my case Advanced End of Life Myelofibrosis with 12-18 months. So every week now I am getting lab works done on Thursday and then on Friday or Saturday depending on hemoglobin numbers I’ll get 1 to 2 q
 
I need to edit that very last part I guess our thought I was was done texting.
Any way it was to 1 to 2 units of blood. Now when I first was diagnosed with my terminal cancer I could get a unit of blood at it was like I was a new man, pop! I was free to I was a new man. Hoo-Rah I was free. Then it got to where I was needing 2 units of blood. What happened to your pop that you would get when this first started you wonder? The blood, because of how many units I have had now there is no more pop. We can go from having really issues except for the fact that the wife, daughter, and I have no issues one week then I have all kind issues, then the next week we are struggling because even though social security has approved my benefits no one can tell me how to get the benefits from them so I have like almost $25k sitting there in some bank account that I literally can’t access so how and we really don’t know how to do a gofumdme page
 
So I will ride this journey out there with all of the people that have taken the time to let you all know that your blood is literally keeping me alive for the precious. Anyway, no offense meant, but I hope God Blesses your life and if you are a non believer or do believe in something I hope that your life’s journey will end as you expected it to end. Thanks to everyone that have given me more time on earth.
 
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timmy_apple said:
Vaccinated or unvaccinated blood?
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Doesn't matter. They test your blood for antibodies and ask if you've been vaccinated.

When I gave blood in April they told me I still had antibodies. They had stopped notifying me for a while. I guess that blood can also be used for help with Covid patients.
 
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