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From: Ed P <esp@snet.n>
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Subject: Re: Dinner Tonight 4/6/2025
Date: Sun, 6 Apr 2025 19:55:32 -0400
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On 4/6/2025 7:33 PM, Dave Smith wrote:
> On 2025-04-06 7:05 p.m., Ed P wrote:
>> On 4/6/2025 6:18 PM, Jill McQuown wrote:
>>> Hambeens 15 bean soup simmered in the crock pot on low with diced 
> 
>> Boneless chicken wings and a strawberry margarita.
>>
>> I donated blood on Friday and they gave you a gift certificate for an 
>> appetizer at Chili's so I went tonight.
>>
>> The One Blood bus goes to different locations and offers incentives to 
>> match the location.  Publix gift card when the park there, etc.
> 
> 
> That's a good incentive. After I retired I used to give blood regularly. 
> Then one day I handed in my questionnaire and mentioned something about 
> the question about whether or not I had ever worked with monkeys.  The 
> nurse had already scanned my answers and went back and noticed I had 
> checked Yes for that. I was declined.
> 
> Apparently they were concerned about the possibility of the presence of 
> simian foamy virus, a form of retro virus that they don't know much 
> about and for which there is not a reliable test.  I followed up on that 
> and discovered that people who work with with primates are much more 
> likely to donate blood than other people, and I have no idea how they 
> could even know that.
> I think they have done away with that exclusion, but now I am on 5 
> different heart medications and some of then exclude me.
> 

They ask quite a few questions, travel outside the US, extra sex 
partners, some drugs, and more.

As for the incentives, I also got a T-shirt and an eGift certificate for 
$30.

To donate, you have to be at least 17 years of age and 120 pounds.  I 
qualify on both parts.

I'll get an email in a few days telling me where my blood went.