On Sun, Nov 6, 2011 at 7:10 AM, Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote: > Mark Knecht wrote: >> >> I hope anyone reading who doesn't donate will at least consider donating. >> Even donating once a year is a big help. It's not painful and whole blood >> donations are easy. I do apheresis which takes longer as it draws my blood, >> separates the contents, keeps the plasma & platelets and then returns the >> rest of my blood back to my body. (Spooky!) ;-) Cheers, Mark > > I would draw the line at it coming back. If something wasn't cleaned right, > they will find it when they test the blood later. Thing is, if something > wasn't cleaned right, you get it back. I'd just drink a glass of orange > juice. lol > > Dale
Yeah, that was my concern before I started doing the process it but it's a very interesting engineering solution to building a closed system where everything is put in brand new for each donation. It's this huge package of plastic tubes and hoses which are sealed until moments before the blood draw so I'm not overly worried, but it's really easy to understand why others would be, and for those folks they should just do whole blood donations which only take blood out and nothing returns. With those it's only a matter of a clean needle. - Mark
