#give blood

[shamelessislamreligionhorse]

Sant Rampal Ji says that serving humanity is the ultimate duty. Keeping this in mind, his disciples donated 269 units of blood in a blood donation camp organized at Satlok Ashram Dhanana Dham, Haryana.

Followers of Sant Rampal Ji

[aureliagone]

Friendly reminder to my fellow US Americans to give blood if you are able to! Many pregnant persons who can’t get the reproductive care they need require much more blood than they would if doctors were able to act quickly. Please consider donating especially if you live somewhere without those rights protected.

This is something you can do knowing it helps people 💜

[pinkfloyd-musicartnaturelove]

David Gilmour and Pete Townshend, rehearsing Pete's song, Give Blood, 1985.

[blackleatherjacketz]

This photo was taken mere moments before I passed the fuck out and they had to shake me awake. Guess I’m not cut out to have a vampire boyfriend, after all.

[wensdaiambrose]

Did you know that the Pope can’t be an organ donor?

[weirdlookindog]

Give Blood by Paul Garner

[spooniestrong]

[boffincoderproducts]

Different blood types are needed at different times. O-negative is like a universal donor for emergencies. AB blood is important for universal plasma, and platelets are always needed because they don't last long. Your blood donation, no matter what type, is really important.

[astridflies]

Thank you for spreading all the awareness about misconceptions people have about blood donations requirements due to recent changes. I saw you in the comments on the poll and your addition to the post. It’s a big deal and I really don’t think people understand how it really does save someone’s life directly.

Thank you! I work in blood research so this is kind of my life. Let me take this opportunity to talk about the donation types and what it means for patients:

Whole blood: a person in the US needs a transfusion ever 2 seconds. Often patients need this immediately, so hospitals need to keep a supply on hand because seconds are literally the difference between life and death.

Double red cell: collects twice as many red cells as a whole blood donation, which means you can help multiple trauma/surgery patients

Platelets: helps cancer patients, people with blood disorders, people who are getting transplants. These are critical because platelets (white blood cells) are more sensitive than red cells and have a much shorter storage life.

Plasma: helps burn patients or people who are going into shock. AB donors are the universal donor for this kind of donation, and it is often critical for people who are undergoing a traumatic childbirth.

I recently heard of a woman who had a critical complication in pregnancy. She received over 50 units of blood to survive the surgery. That's the equivalent to bleeding to death EIGHT TIMES. The US has a really high maternal mortality rate.

If you can donate please do. If you can't for whatever reason, encourage the people in your life who can.

This is the chronically ill website, so I love to reiterate that being deferred from donation is not a moral failing. We want our donors to be safe as much as we want our recipients to be safe.

[shamelessislamreligionhorse]

संत रामपाल जी का संदेश है कि मानव सेवा ही परम धर्म है, जिसे आत्मसात करते हुए उनके शिष्यों ने 11 सतलोक आश्रम मैं रक्तदान किया

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Chapters: 1/2 Fandom: The Legend of Zelda & Related Fandoms, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Link/Zelda (Legend of Zelda)

After a day spent wrangling his students on a field trip to Lake Hylia and having to skip lunch, Link is sure that he'll be fine to go donate blood that evening. He is not fine. But at least he gets to spend some extra time with the lovely nurse, and eat a truly impressive amount of oreos, so, it could be worse?

For @zelinktines23 Day 21: Meet-weird!

This was a blast to write! Thank you @silentprincess17 for consulting, and @ladyhoneydee and @alucanid for being the most superb of beta readers

Snippet under the cut

The door to the Hyrule Blood Services clinic chimed as it swung open. The nurse at the front desk gave him a cheerful smile, and he returned it with a friendly wave.

“Link Akkala?” she asked, glancing down at her computer screen.

“5 o’clock, that would be me!” he said, pulling out his donor card and swiping his card under the scanner.

“Oh congratulations, I see it’s your tenth time donating!”

“Do I get a prize?” he winked, and she laughed.  

“I think your tenth visit entitles you to a blood services keychain.” She said, pulling one out from a box underneath her desk. He pocketed the “I save lives” keychain and took the clipboard she held out.

“Any issues with the questionnaire? As a seasoned donor, I assume you filled it out at home yesterday.”

“Yep, no issues at all. Nothing more exciting to report than my COVID booster a couple of months ago.” He handed back the form with his signature messily scrawled at the bottom.

“Great. I’ll just hand you off to Zelda here, she’ll get you set up.”

“Awesome, thanks.” 

She turned her attention back to the computer screen, and he followed the other nurse over to the screening room, shedding his light blue jacket as he sat down. The nurse – Zelda, what a pretty name – walked him through the more detailed version of the online questionnaire he’d finished the day before.

“All right, you’ve been here a few times, you know the drill,” she said, leafing through the printed questionnaire and asking the usual follow-up questions. It was all pretty routine, and she was very professional, but being questioned about his sexual habits always irked him a bit. He clamped down any sarcastic comments he might have made about lingering homophobic policies when he noticed the apologetic look in her eyes. Save that for another time, he figured. A quick blood pressure check and a finger prick to test his hemoglobin levels, and she led him back out into the main room. 

She patted one of the chairs. “All right Mr Akkala, lie back and relax.” she said, gesturing for him to make himself comfortable.

“Gladly. And please, call me Link. It feels weird being called Mr Akkala when I’m not at work.” 

That got her to smile. “Fine by me, Link. Which arm?” she asked, pulling out a thick, colourful elastic strap. He held out his left arm, and she wrapped it around his well-muscled bicep. “Oooh, you’ve got nice veins!” she remarked.

He laughed. “So I’ve heard, but it’s not a compliment I get often.”

“Well, it’s true.” She grinned as she pulled out the bags, labeling them with the appropriate barcodes. “Love a man who makes my life easier. I hate having to dig around, almost as much as my patients do.”

“I can imagine it’s not fun.”

“Nope. Do you want a blanket? Stress ball?”

“Yeah, that’d be great!”

“Okay, let me just grab those…” She walked off to the bin of cozy blankets at the other end of the room. She had a pleasant voice, Link noticed. It was lightly accented, but he couldn’t quite place where it was from. She sounded dignified, even when talking about veins.

“There you go.” She tucked the blanket around his legs, popped the heated stress ball into his palm, and tilted the chair back. “Ready to start?”

“Yep!”

She quickly sanitized his arm and her hands, putting on a pair of nitrile gloves before pulling the needle out of its pouch, clipping it to the bag’s connecting tube. He turned his head away as she threaded it neatly into a prominent vein by his left elbow.

She worked quickly and efficiently, but Link couldn’t stop himself from noticing how soft and gentle her hands were. The tube filled up with blood and the machine holding the bag started to tilt back and forth to keep the flow moving.

“You’re all set! I’ll be back in a few minutes, just gotta fill out some paperwork.” 

“I’ll be good, I promise.” He winked, and she laughed. He liked her laugh, too. It was sweet, melodic.

Stop thinking about how cute the nurse is, Link, he chided himself as she walked back over to her desk. He lay back, pulling out his phone and opening up some silly game that his students had told him about. It didn’t hold his attention for long, only slightly distracting him from Zelda working away at her desk at the far end of the room. She looked so serious, poring over her work with a slight furrow in her brow and occasionally biting her lower lip. She glanced up at him, and he quickly turned his attention up to the ceiling, absent-mindedly counting the styrofoam tiles and fluorescent bulbs, as the soft clicks and whooshing of the collection machine hummed away in the background. 

Out of the corner of his eye, he saw her turning back to her paperwork. He lifted his head to glance at her again, but the angle meant that he just happened to catch a glimpse of the tube in his arm. He felt his stomach lurch, his hands going limp, and the ball dropping onto the floor, and ohhh no what’s happening –

Blackness.

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Song of the Day

18 Mar., ‘23

[shower-thoughts-last-responder]

This is a quick reminder for y'all to go give blood! NHS blood stocks run low this time of year, and they need donors urgently! And! Unlike a murdersaurus or a really big frog, your blood is happy to go with nurses

Get signed up here:

https://www.blood.co.uk/

basically, i think the general rule of thumb is: if someone REALLY wants the blood that’s inside of your body, and they’re like… a vampire, or a dracula, or some sort of mansquito, then that’s probably okay. a dracula and a mansquito are made for removing things like blood and swords from inside your body. that’s basically fine.

if something wants to get at your blood, and they’re, say, some kind of murdersaurus, or maybe a really big frog, that’s where the problems start to arise. a really frog is not made for removing blood, and your blood knows this, which is why it is so vehement about wanting to stay IN your body instead of coming out. 

unfortunately this will not deter a really big frog, because a really big frog is full of things like prizes, and value, and quite a lot of hatred, and it would REALLY rather like to replace any and all of those things with your blood, and basically by any means possible.

[boffincoderproducts]

By donating blood, you can save lives and inspire hope. It's a simple way to make a big difference.

[shamelessislamreligionhorse]

Followers of Sant Rampal Ji Maharaj organised blood donation camps throughout the country on the occasion of Divya Dharma Yagya Diwas.

[adaginy]

I give blood regularly, so I can answer specifically that it's average but weird on my right arm (I have two smaller veins instead of one, apparently) and hard on my left (not sure why, but it always required getting an expert, who eventually politely asked if they could try the other arm). However, I once had a doctor's office manage to give me a bruise the size of my palm from taking just a couple vials, so I tell the blood place that they can give me the trainee if they want because the bar is really low.