2008-12-17, 01:03 AM
I'm thankful every day now for people who donate blood.
A couple years back I was in the hospital for a mojor emergency abdominal surgery (I had contracted a life threatening infection from a previous surgery) and wouldn't stop bleeding. I needed two units of blood and I was kept in a chemical coma for 3 days in the ICU hooked up to 4 IVs and on an incubator (That's the machine that breathes for you, right?). I would have died without that blood.
It sucks for me that I'm not even allowed to pay it forward and donate blood myself. I was born in Scotland and moved to Canada some years ago, they won't let me donate blood because they think I'm at risk (since I was born there) of having Mad Cow... Failiure logic because I obviously don't.
If you have donated blood, thank you. You've saved somebody's life.
Edit:
Kabanaw, it's called a Punnett (Spelling?) Square. For showing Genotypes and Phenotypes
A couple years back I was in the hospital for a mojor emergency abdominal surgery (I had contracted a life threatening infection from a previous surgery) and wouldn't stop bleeding. I needed two units of blood and I was kept in a chemical coma for 3 days in the ICU hooked up to 4 IVs and on an incubator (That's the machine that breathes for you, right?). I would have died without that blood.
It sucks for me that I'm not even allowed to pay it forward and donate blood myself. I was born in Scotland and moved to Canada some years ago, they won't let me donate blood because they think I'm at risk (since I was born there) of having Mad Cow... Failiure logic because I obviously don't.
If you have donated blood, thank you. You've saved somebody's life.
Edit:
Kabanaw, it's called a Punnett (Spelling?) Square. For showing Genotypes and Phenotypes