Donate Your Hair and/or Blood

I have done saint baldricks for years. Always have fun with it. With them is always the locks group.
 
Here is my needle prick.
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Knife people can handle it.
 
It kills me that my cardiologist will not let me give blood since my bypass surgery. I think it is because of the handful of medications I take.

When I started dating my future wife in Selma, Alabama, two of her friends were nurses at the regional hospital where they treated "blue babies", as they called the infants with RH problems. When they found out I had O-Negative, I instantly became a "source". I could not get two days past the mandatory waiting period before my phone would ring again. That got me in the lifelong habit, I suppose, and I quit counting after twelve gallons.

I am 6'8" tall. One day I walked into the Alabama Power Company office where I worked and the service supervisor (a real practical joker) told me that the hospital called, that they were having a lot of problems with the babies who received my blood.
Concerned, I asked him if they said what the problem was. He replied that the kids were becoming too long for the cribs!
 
Having lived in Europe at the time of the "Mad Cow" scare, no one wants my blood anymore. And you'd die of old age waiting for me to come up with enough hair to donate for any cause...
 
I don't have enough hair to give. Unless it was for young guys who couldn't grow a decent beard. I could donate a goatee every couple of weeks. I give blood a couple time a year. I'm already signed up for a blood drive at work on the 16th of this month.

Frank
 
I use to donate blood in high school and college. A few months after I graduated from college I found out I had a blood disease by trying to donate blood. I still have the blood disease (actually 3 of them) and spent over a year waiting for a medication to come available to help with what I have and had to get transfused with blood every couple weeks. I would get both red and platlets and a couple units at a time. I think I have had around a 150 transfusions so far but luckily haven't needed one in a couple years. I don't have the blood to give since I live with a fraction of what a normal person has, but they wouldn't take it even if I could donate.

I would not be here right now if it weren't for people who donate blood. So for everyone out there that does it, Thank you! It really does save a lot of people's lives when something goes wrong with their body or they are involved in an accident.

And for those that like to donate, you can also get on the bone marrow donors list so that you will be in a national registry so someone that has something like I do or a cancer might have a donor one day. I am a WASP so I have quite a few possible donor matches, but if you have some type of ethnic heritage there are many fewer donors and a match is much harder to find. It's worth looking into if you don't mind donating blood. And if you have a child you can donate the umbilical cord blood which is very useful stuff since it does not have antibodies yet and can be used universally.
 
Thanks everyone that donates hair and blood. My wife is balding and low on blood due to her illness and uses a type of wig and has to get blood infusions every now and then.
 
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Here is my soon to donated Cousin It hair.
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My daughters have been donating their hair to Locks of Love (voluntarily, of their own accord) since they were in kindergarten (one's 13 and the other's 7).

BA, sorry, but I can't donate blood. Apparently, I have the veins of an infant and it's impossible to get any appreciable amount of blood out of me - I tried. I made them poke me a few extra times to make sure.
 
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