I donated blood the other day and i was perfectly fine during the donation. They had me sit down for 10 minutes and eat and drink something. I felt great! I got in my car and I felt 100% fine. I was pulling out of the parking lot and suddenly got EXTREMLEY faint. I knew i was going to pass out because I’ve passed out before. I pulled into another parking lot, parked my car, and tried my best to call my boyfriend so he knew where i was. My fingers were too weak to push the keys. I suddenly started sweating profusely, i opened my car door and without warning, threw up all over the parking lot. Then i got faint again. So i sat on the curb, i couldn’t stand up, i suddenly had diharrea, and my mom had to come pick me up and her and my brother had to help me get in the car. I was breathing really heavy. This lasted for about 45 minutes. Is this normal? I’m concerned. I’m wondering if i’m pregnant now too, I hear you get really sick if you donate blood when you are pregnant.
A pregnant Betty was involved in a serious car accident and required urgent blood transfusions to save her life. Betty is alive and well and went on to have 4 healthy children. This is her story.
A pregnant Betty was involved in a serious car accident and required urgent blood transfusions to save her life. Betty is alive and well and went on to have 4 healthy children. This is her story.
Donating blood is such an important thing to do. It’s a vital gift that can help people survive car crashes, or maybe cancer. It can also be used in key research into new ways to save lives… and …
I don’t mean organ donation from patients who have died, I mean living patients. Would you support a law requiring people to give their non-essential organs and tissues to people who need them in order to live?
For the purpose of this situation, assume that those for whom the surgery or loss of organ/tissue/blood would be deadly or extremely dangerous would be exempt. Only people whose life depended on it would receive organs. Assume also that there would be no compensation, except, perhaps, that the government would cover the cost of the surgery and medical care before, during, and after the procedure.
Why would you support this? Why not? Would you support it under any circumstances? (For example, if someone causes a car accident that destroys another person’s kidneys, should the person who caused the accident need to give up a kidney so the injured party has one, be it through an exchange program or a direct transplant?)
What about blood? Should people be required to give blood on an ongoing basis to sustain the lives of others? Plasma? Bone marrow?
Thanks.
I have prostate cancer and my treatment is: Hormone Therapy and External Beam Radiation. Is my blood OK to use for what ever purposes blood banks use it?
I can’t help any other way at the moment and wish to continue helping others. Prior to my cancer I would do volunteer work. Now I am too tired to do the physical work I used to do. Even driving my car has been too much.
