OT Blood type

And you get free cookies.

Cookies? Izzat all? Geez, we get pizza!

vince

On Thu, 14 Dec 2006 19:54:24 -0500, "Opus" wrote:


"daytripper" wrote in message
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I bet it was Hemochromatosis.

/daytripper

Symptoms sound right.....except I'm not so sure about the "rare" part.
My father had it and thus I was warned that I was at high risk. It was
a long time ago, so I don't remember the details, but I carry the
impression that it isn't especially uncommon.

Wolfgang
who, symptom free, supposes that judicious (which is to say liberal)
intake of caffeine and nicotine must have a profound prophylactic
effect.

Agreed, HC is hardly a rare disease. 1 in 200 Caucasians have the genetic
disposition toward developing the disease. But you know how doctors are,
they
often elevate a condition as a means of elevating their own import...

/daytripper (message to doctors everywhe we're catching on ;-)

I guess what made it so rare was that my boss Charles Wright had to stand on
his head, recite the Star Spangled Banner, and juggle a chainsaw, egg, and
an apple all the while they took his blood!

It was my understanding at the time that it was rare, but it may just have
been that none of us had ever heard of such a thing and just figured the
Charles was just too damn lazy to drive a 10' ground rod with a sledgehammer
into hard as rock red clay?

He really did have to have monthly blood letting though, and I suppose he
still does, if he's still alive. I need to check on the old fella. He was
as good an employer as I have ever had. He must have rehire my drunk ass 10
times.

Op



It's a lifelong condition - the cause never goes away - but with proper
management the potential damage can be avoided. From the little I know about
it (an engineer that worked for me had to schedule the phlebotomies around his
travel plans) the severe levels of iron sequestration left untreated most
frequently causes joint problems and liver problems (raging oxidative stress).
But with phlebotomy they can get the iron in the blood down to normal levels
and keep it there.

What was always amazing to me was he could keep dumping blood without any
apparent side effects. He sure as hell wasn't anemic - he had more get up and
go than I usually did...

/daytripper

"vincent p. norris" wrote in message
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And you get free cookies.

Cookies? Izzat all? Geez, we get pizza!

vince

I bled a pint just yesterday, got cookies, juice, pizza, sandwhich's, the
church by my house went all out for the Red Cross and their blood drive.

Jeremy

"BJ Conner" wrote in message
And you get free cookies.

Maybe it's just here, but we usually get a free Red Cross T-shirt in the
"Give Blood" style du jour. I think most of my weekend wardrobe is made up
of these shirts.

a previous item; the two-fer machine is apheresis. I did it again
tonight. It takes a pint, spins out the red blood cells, & puts the plasma
back in you. Repeat. They get two units instead of one, and you don't lose
any fluid volume. It's pretty cool, literally. Because the plasma begins
cooling to room temp, it's noticeably cooler when it goes back in. After
the full two units, I was a bit chilled. Weird, but not terribly
uncomfortable. And you can't donate again for 16 weeks instead of 8.

Joe F.

Maybe it's just here, but we usually get a free Red Cross T-shirt in the
"Give Blood" style du jour.

I neglected to mention that several times, recently, we were offered
black T-shirts with some motorcycle plugged on it. Struck me as odd
that the Red Cross, dedicated to saving lives, would encourage us to
ride them there thangs!

And you can't donate again for 16 weeks instead of 8.

Bummer, Joe! You get only half as many cookies/year that way!

vince