Feelin' no love for the anemic here...
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trinityvixenI 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::
*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::
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Date: 2004-04-14 02:12 pm (UTC)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.