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jonus156  Posts: 906
Registered: 2005-10-12 11:53:45
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I think im going to start i could use $200 a month extra
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Smackey_the_Frog  Title: Bears can be mean
Posts: 58
Registered: 2000-5-7 12:32:53
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Natoli posted:
Smackey_the_Frog posted:
I did it a half-dozen times, back in college.
I stopped once a 'nurse' tapped my vein with a lead that didn't have a clamp on, and walked away. I bled into a 3-foot wide puddle on the floor, beneath my chair.
Person A sticks you
Person B comes over to hook you up to the machine
never again.
Now it's an all in one with lots of disposable tubing. No waiting for someone else to come hook you up. Back when my work schedule was more flexible, I could do it 2 or 3 times a week. Now, they only day I could go would be Saturday, and they're only open half a day, and it's their busiest day. So I don't bother anymore. Instead I donate whole blood every 8 weeks. I don't get "paid" for it, as such, but they do send me restaurant gift certificates, and sometimes I get a t-shirt! LOL
odd thing is, after I posted my bad plasma experience, I looked up the local whole blood drives in my area. I think it's time I start doing that.
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myxomatosis8 Title: amateur zookeeper
Posts: 800
Registered: 2001-7-14 23:45:21
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Smackey_the_Frog posted:
odd thing is, after I posted my bad plasma experience, I looked up the local whole blood drives in my area. I think it's time I start doing that.
I looked into stuff too, and apparently despite being a universal recipient for whole blood, for plasma specifically I'm the universal donor... which means I can only get my type of plasma. Which means I'd better start donating if I ever feel like getting plasma that matches. 
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deadcactus Posts: 669
Registered: 2001-12-27 09:17:08
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myxomatosis8 posted:
I looked into stuff too, and apparently despite being a universal recipient for whole blood, for plasma specifically I'm the universal donor... which means I can only get my type of plasma. Which means I'd better start donating if I ever feel like getting plasma that matches.
What convinced you that you can receive any whole blood but only specific types of plasma?
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tillsb  Title: me
Posts: 463
Registered: 2003-7-24 20:45:26
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Onslaught. posted:
Nope, I considered it a few times during college, though.
I think that I'm going to start donating blood regularly. They just give you stale cookies for that. =\
We give tshirts and food coupons at the blood bank I work at
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tillsb Title: me
Posts: 463
Registered: 2003-7-24 20:45:26
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Ptilk posted:
Weird that you posted this thread today. I was just talking with this woman I know about donating plasma yesterday. Hadn't seen her in a while and asked how things were going and she told me she had recently started donating and the money was really helping. She went into great detail about the process. I found it interesting, as I had never heard about getting paid to donate.
Said she gets 50 bucks per visit for the first 5, then 35 bucks for the next 5, then back up to 50 after that. Can go every couple of days, had to wait 8 or 9 hours the first time to see an on-site doctor who checked out a lot of stuff, including looking between fingers and toes for needle marks, can't have more than 6 tattoos and piercings combined, she is going to make an extra 20 bucks a visit if she lets them give her a tetanus shot once a month or something like that, and the only downside for her was the needle mark they leave on her arm after each visit.
Thought it was a strange way to make extra money, but I guess it's a pretty easy way as well. Can make an extra couple hundred bucks a month or so, which isn't all that bad for a few hours of laying on a couch watching tv....though the huge ass needle would make it a bit less fun I think.
Oh, and they pay her with a prepaid VISA card. No cash due to the danger of getting ripped off by the people who hang out around the donation place waiting to attack when you stumble out.
If you get paid it's not donating. Also they can't transfuse any donations that are paid for. They go to Pharmaceutical companies.
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tillsb Title: me
Posts: 463
Registered: 2003-7-24 20:45:26
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deadcactus posted:
myxomatosis8 posted:
I looked into stuff too, and apparently despite being a universal recipient for whole blood, for plasma specifically I'm the universal donor... which means I can only get my type of plasma. Which means I'd better start donating if I ever feel like getting plasma that matches.
What convinced you that you can receive any whole blood but only specific types of plasma?
Plasma, Platelets and RBCs have different rules basically I don't think it's that extreme though.
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EbonDragon  Title: 8bit epileptic
Posts: 1,041
Registered: 2002-12-21 19:14:06
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I was considering it but the locations to donate here are too far.
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myxomatosis8 Title: amateur zookeeper
Posts: 800
Registered: 2001-7-14 23:45:21
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deadcactus posted:
myxomatosis8 posted:
I looked into stuff too, and apparently despite being a universal recipient for whole blood, for plasma specifically I'm the universal donor... which means I can only get my type of plasma. Which means I'd better start donating if I ever feel like getting plasma that matches.
What convinced you that you can receive any whole blood but only specific types of plasma?
Oh, looked it up. Just hadn't realized that whenever they talk about the standard donor/recipient they're only talking about PRCs and not whole blood. Makes sense that way, just also didn't know that the plasma is pretty much reverse rules for RBCs in terms of antibodies etc.
I'm AB, so guess I can take any red cells but only AB's plasma, and therefore whole blood. And here I thought I was a useless donor!
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Onslaught. Title: I've always wanted a title.
Posts: 1,377
Registered: 2001-2-13 13:46:37
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tillsb posted:
Onslaught. posted:
Nope, I considered it a few times during college, though.
I think that I'm going to start donating blood regularly. They just give you stale cookies for that. =\
We give tshirts and food coupons at the blood bank I work at
If you give regularly. A few years back I gave three times in one year and got a t-shirt. If I were just trying to get a lame t-shirt, getting stabbed in the arm wouldn't be my first choice in going about it.
.. That said, most phlebotomists are pretty hot, around here. ... they can even find a vein better than a lot of the registered nurses.
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