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Subject: Re: Dinner Tonight 4/6/2025
Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2025 01:35:50 -0000 (UTC)
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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.

Having been to Timor 8 times excludes me for life.  (Navy trips).