Feelin' no love for the anemic here...

[trinityvixen]

I could cry, if only from bitter, bitter disappointment. I woke up, despite little sleep, ate a satisfyingly fortified meal, even bugged Ronii into coming to give blood before I left. Then I got to Lerner, got stuck TWICE, and told to go home, try again tomorrow.

*weeps* My blood iron wasn't high enough to donate. I know I'm usually perilously low, like 12.8 usually, and the minimum is 12.5. I had 11.8, I looked pleadingly at the woman, she said she could try my other middle finger, and it was 12.2. I asked if I could wait maybe 10 minutes or something and come back, seeing as I'd only just eaten like 15 minutes ago, so of course it was a tad low. Apparently, twice is the limit. Maybe if I'd waited just a minute or two more, I'd have gotten up that last 3/10s...

Snuffle, snuffle. I've never failed at giving blood before. I immediately went to make an appointment for tomorrow, then returned to cheer Ronii on...only to see the lady giving her the blue sheet and saying something with a shake of her head. Ronii was low on her iron, too! Oh dear. And she was sooooo nice to come, her first time! She's the only one besides Michelle to ever come along with me! *bawls* Why don't they want my blood? Why are they hatin'?

I'm using my disappointment as an excuse to miss Chinese Civ (I hardly pay attention there anyway), though I'll go to Cell Phys of Disease for the company, and I'm still skipping writing tonight. I get two misses, I haven't read stuff for class, I'm not presenting and I don't have my assignment for her yet. I was planning on using blood loss as an excuse--still might, actually. Dizziness attributable to donation. I just can leave out that it was a failed donation. I'll make it up by going to class on time tomorrow or something, seeing as I'll be up in plenty of time (so there's time to eat a crapload of iron-laden stuff...BACON AND GRAPE NUTS, HERE I COME!!!!).

sigh...it's my one good deed, my public service...it's really sad to be denied...or maybe it's sleep loss, affecting my judgment...::single tear::

Comments

[arcane-the-sage.livejournal.com]

Perhaps it would be easier to just take an iron supplement the morning of the donation. Besides aren't you a little light (weight wise) to be donating blood. I've known a lot of people (mostly female) who've gotten turned away for not weighing enough.

[mobiuswolf.livejournal.com]

Nope, the minimum weight is 110 lbs. Like any healthy 5.5' woman trinityvixen and myself both weight more than that.

[arcane-the-sage.livejournal.com]

Well I've never met you so I can say in your case, but are you sure D is above that weight? I would have said lighter than that.

[mobiuswolf.livejournal.com]

Heh. While I am not privy to her exact weight I'm judging by the fact that we have fairly similar builds and that I am in no danger of being less than 110 lbs.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

Wow, I'd love to weigh 110 pounds. My skinny Indian friends weighed too little to donate, but nah, I've always been in the weight-friendly A-ok territory.

[melbournian.livejournal.com]

I've been rejected from donating blood for being anemic before, my iron
level was 12.8 at the time, and the minimum was 13. Rather than telling me to try again the next day, they did not let me donate for a full nine months. If I was a woman however I would have had enough iron to satisfy them. Shortly after that the minimum level was changed for guys to 12.5, so it all seemed very silly for me. Now however the minimum has gone back up to 12.8, and will soon go back to the old level of 13 for guys.

As for if you were donating blood here, women currently only need 11.8, up from 11.5 a few months ago, so you would have just scraped in. While I have donated blood voer a dozen times, I haven't been in a while. Besides the iron levels there are other factors like time, recovery, and that nasty little scar. If they made it easier on us I think more donations would be made.

MEAT!

[slackwench.livejournal.com]

You need to eat more MEAT! Good excuse, I say. :)
What time are you going there tomorrow? I was gonna go tomorrow too.

[xannoside.livejournal.com]

If it makes you feel any better, I'm just plain not allowed to give blood because I lived in Europe within the last 10 years.

[neo-leviathan.livejournal.com]

Bugger! In this situation Dayle, I reccomend you take a leaf out of my book... EAT MORE MEAT!!
I think you're brave for even giving blood in the first place, I've never given blood, and never had blood taken for a blood test (at least not while I was conscious, they may have done it while I was KOed and having my tonsils out).
I have no problem with injections, but no bloody vampire is taking *my* blood! *Shudder*

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

I'll never age and I'll never die...unlike all the stars in the sky...I'll be young forever, and why? 'Cause I'm a vampire. ;)

I like giving blood. NOT IN THE WAY THAT LIZ SAYS, but just 'cause it's a service I can do, it doesn't bother me or alter what I do much for more than a day, and it's life-saving. Seeing as I'm short of heroic stature, being a life-saver is kinda nice. PLus, community service, and it's the only one I do. Maybe I should work towards fixing *That*.

[neo-leviathan.livejournal.com]

Under the moon, under the sky.
At the edge of the wild, the corner of the eye. Master of the night, and tamer of the day.
We are the Wolves, and that is our way.

I admire the fact that you can even let someone stick a needle in you and siphon off your blood, the mere idea gives me the creeps.

[viridian.livejournal.com]

Don't feel bad, I'm not allowed to give blood ever in my life because of antibodies from exposure to one of the Hepatitis types when I was a baby.

[teneda.livejournal.com]

That's the same reason they won't let me give blood. Oh, and the tattoos. I raise my sleeve and they go, "Uh, sorry, no can do."

[saikogrrl.livejournal.com]

Dude. You VOLUNTARILY let them stick needles in you??

I applaud you! #_#


....and *whimper* I have to get my wisdom teeth out soon (ALL of them!!!)

I have a seriously low pain threshold.

[neo-leviathan.livejournal.com]

*All* your wisdom teeth? Damn, thats just not nice at all!
I'm sure you'll be fine though, a friend of mine from 2001 summer school had hers out a few years ago, and she didn't have troubles. And she's a lot smaller than you are, bruises easily and doesn't have a great pain threshold.
Either way, look at the bright side, you get to eat jelly and ice cream for a few days!!