Why or why not?
2007-09-28 11:05:23 · 32 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
No attacks or lectures. Just curiosity. :)
2007-09-28 11:11:08 · update #1
RedQueen -- I'm really sorry to hear that! My grandmother also has RA and I have an idea of how hard it can be to live with.
2007-09-28 11:16:48 · update #2
I can't anymore. I'm a three-time cancer survivor who has recieved a donor bone marrow transplant. So that puts me out of the running for both blood and organ donorship in the future.
On the other hand, I encourage people to get their butts down to the Red Cross and get that little jab in the arm. Without donors, I wouldn't be alive right now--so if you think your blood won't make it to someone who needs it... think again. It DOES make a difference.
2007-09-28 15:04:43 · answer #1 · answered by writersblock73 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I used to, but I take chemotherapy drugs to control my RA. The only way I would be able to donate would be to suspend my own treatment for 3 months prior, which isn't an option.
I'm on the national bone marrow registry, and I carry an organ donor card. Only upon my death will we know for certain whether I will be able to donate. RA is seen as a joint disorder, but in reality it affects nearly every organ in the body to some extent.
2007-09-28 11:13:26 · answer #2 · answered by iamnoone 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I used to but am no longer allowed to because they won't take blood from someone in the US who has lived in England for at least 6 months on or before 1996. (Mad cow concerns, I'm presuming, which is absurd, considering how rare the damn thing is, and I'd be barred even if I was a vegan!)
2007-09-28 11:31:44 · answer #3 · answered by Nightwind 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I used to for years, but I'm not sure if my blood would be accepted anymore because of an, hum, indiscretion a few years back that might make them worry about whether my blood was clean or not based on their standard questionnaire that they give.
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What moron is going around giving everyone a thumbs down for people simply responding with factual answers that directly address the question?
2007-09-28 11:13:04 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
I would (as a matter of fact, my church holds blood drives) but I lived in the UK during a certain time period so my blood is not worthy enough to be donated. I guess we'll see if I ever really do get mad cow disease.
2007-09-28 11:10:40 · answer #5 · answered by gumby 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Acts 15 verses28,29 reads, 28 For the holy spirit and we ourselves favored adding no further burden to you, except these necessary things, 29 to keep abstaining from things sacrificed to idols and from blood and from things strangled and from fornication . If you carefully keep yourselves from these things, you will prosper. Good health to you.
According to these two verses we should not take or give blood. How can one take one and not the other. Is it ok to fornicate?
Romans 15: 4 For all the things that were written aforetime were written for our instruction. For all things. Not pick and chose what we think benefits our lives!
2007-09-28 11:21:30 · answer #6 · answered by Just So 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I would like to, but I'm banned for life because I lived in the UK for three years during the 1980's
2007-09-28 11:17:40 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I was going to yesterday, but I wasn't feeling really good, so I didn't. I'm pretty sure I'm sick. I did at this time last year, though.
My blood is a gift to me, as is mortality as a whole. However, gifts unshared are gifts unappreciated. I give blood because it's something that I can do to help others.
2007-09-28 11:09:49 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
I used to donate blood, but I can't donate anymore. Last time I donated, I was so weak for hours afterward, that I couldn't drive myself home.
2007-09-28 11:08:42 · answer #9 · answered by nowyouknow 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
No. I refuse to participate in a propaganda driven industry that is directly responsible for over 20,000 deaths a year in the US alone.
The thumbs down prove my point. The mere fact that the slogan 'blood saves lives' has been drilled into your heads for so many years, and has been backed up by irresponsible medical people making false claims that 'the transfusion saved their life',
has successfully brainwashed the majority into willfully accepting this very dangerous medical procedure. A medical procedure that some hospitals are actually proud to be offering alternatives from.
Bloodless Surgery-It's not just for Jehovah's Witnesses anymore.
It is for the most educated and brilliant Surgeons, and for the most informed of patients.
Anyone who goes into elective surgery and allows a human blood transfusion, is an ignorant fool.
2007-09-28 11:10:41 · answer #10 · answered by Tim 47 7 · 1⤊ 4⤋