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Wednesday, July 13, 2005

Denied

Yesterday, for the first time ever, I was deferred from giving blood. I've given somewhere between 8 and 9 gallons (yes, gallons!) over my lifetime and never been deferred. But yesterday my blood pressure was 86/54 and they won't take it if they get a reading below 90. She checked my other arm (although once she got the first reading it didn't matter) and I was able to get it up to 94/56 by thinking stressful thoughts (but that's hard when you're B-positive, get it?). Oh well, now I know for next time.

Posted by talljay at 8:53 AM

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

I was denied today because I have been to Belize within the past 12 months. Currently I expect my blood pressure and heart rate to be quite high due to the concentration of allergens in Jenn's house due to the new cat.

mess

July 18, 2005 10:24 AM
talljay said...

This brings up a good point. It's what I call "Jay's law of convenient numbers". Where does 12 months come from? It's just too convenient not to be a total SWAG.
There's another joke here but I just can't quite bring myself to make it.

July 18, 2005 12:51 PM
Anonymous said...

I don't know, but having looked at the list of countries that you can not go to and give blood for the seamingly arbitrary 12 mths, I may be denied much more often.

mess

July 20, 2005 9:26 AM
talljay said...

I would guess the list consists of almost every country in South or Central America, Africa and Asia (except Japan and South Korea).

July 20, 2005 9:37 AM

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