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Do we have a New Year's Resolutions thread yet?
Zingoleb:
To...to gay sex?
Bluesummers:
--- Quote from: Unicorn on 15 Jan 2013, 10:38 ---
--- Quote from: nekowafer on 15 Jan 2013, 10:23 ---Oh. So it's possible that I wouldn't be allowed to donate anyway. I'm on alllll sorts of medications now, and soon I will be adding two more. Fun!
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I'm pretty sure Spironolactone alone is enough to disqualify your blood.
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Really? If so...that's just stupid...loads of people are on that. I know it can tweak hormone levels, but it's typically used as a diuretic.
--- Quote from: Lupercal on 15 Jan 2013, 15:00 ---I was born about two months early, had a blood transfusion as a baby (thanks, science!) and as such cannot donate blood. By the sounds of it I'm now allowed to have lots of gay sex. Hoorah!
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Have fun. ;) Seriously though, I think it the blood transfusion were dangerous, you wouldn't have survived this long.
Thrillho:
--- Quote from: Barmymoo on 15 Jan 2013, 13:32 ---They said that it's being looked into and isn't currently possible, but I just looked on the Blood website and it says that it's one year. So I am confused!
Edit: just checked and the change was indeed implemented in November 2011. So my donor centre is VERY out of date!
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Can I suggest you report that? If they're over a year out of date on legislation then what the fuck else are they missing?
Bluesummers:
--- Quote from: Gareth on 15 Jan 2013, 15:36 ---Can I suggest you report that? If they're over a year out of date on legislation then what the fuck else are they missing?
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Not that this excuses them, but Red Cross makes mistakes all the time. They really need to get their collective head in the game.
Example: My wife (and I, by unfortunate extension) were watching the Duggars ("[X number of] Kids and Counting"), and they were all going to a blood drive. Those old enough were donating blood, because they're all about "doing the right thing." That's fantastic. But then I remembered: They all (the whole god damn family, all 21 of them) just came back from HONDURAS...or maybe it was El Salvador...anyway, they go there EVERY YEAR. Both countries are chock full of mosquitos, and both are considered HIGH RISK MALARIA ZONES, making anyone entering them ineligible for 12 months. And since they go every year, they shouldn't be donating AT ALL. EVER.
This is all on national TV, and it scares me that I'm probably one of about a dozen people (arbitrarily estimated) nationwide who have put these puzzle pieces together.
Thrillho:
I know someone who works for the Red Cross and if you tell me the address of the one you're talking about I could get it through to the right people.
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