On 14 Dec 2006 13:28:22 -0800, "BJ Conner"
wrote:

Donating a pint supposedly adds 2 weeks to your life span. Me build up
iron in their bodies. Women don't build up because they get rid of
blood regularly. The iron increases your risk of heat attacks etc.
And you get free cookies.

Well, unless the location and specifics of "donation" somehow figures
into this, Frank ought to be very happy...and damaging himself regularly
until he's 317 or so...

On Dec 14, 8:48 am, "rb608" wrote:
Ken Fortenberry wrote:
The best baseball players are apparently Type O.Sadaharu O? :-)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanes...inciden tally, I'm scheduled to squirt out a pint of A- tonight at the
local middle school bloodmobile. Last time I donated, they had some
sort of two-fer pheresis machine that could extract two units of red
blood cells but replace the fluid. I've done the plasmapheresis thing
before; but it's still weird to have stuff flowing back into your arm
that's a slightly different temperature than what's already there.

Joe F.