Re: The Gift of Life...


Heidi Graw wrote:
> >"Hyerdahl" <Hyerdahl3@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
> >news:1128127431.371824.146130@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >
> >> Heidi Graw wrote:
> >> Blood donations:
> >>
> >> http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=1792580&dopt=Abstract
> >>
> >> "The first time donor population consisted of 22.26% of female and 77.74%
> >> of
> >> male blood donors."
> >>
> >> More men donate their blood to save lives. Here's an equal opportunity
> >> which women aren't taking advantage of. Donating blood is a safe and
> >> harmless way of saving other people's lives. So, why aren't women
> >> participating in blood donor programs to the same extent that the men
> >> are?
> >> Any ideas as to why this might be?
>
> > Hyerdahl wrote:
> > Well, I used to work in a male-dominated business and they came 'round
> > to collect the donations when they were needed or at least once a year.
> > Where I worked there were simply more men than women. I guess they
> > don't go into private homes to collect donations, which is where many
> > women are, especially women with little kids at home.
>
> My husband is a regular blood donor. He actually has to go to the
> blood-donor clinic that is set up at a church hall every 56 days.

That's cool. And that would be a good place for both sexes to donate.


He has a standing appointment to go there on his way home from work.
I asked him
> about how many women he sees there. And he said that there are definitely
> more men than women donating. The abovementioned ratio of men:women is
> pretty much consistent with his own observations here in our town. However,
> he did notice quite a few women being rejected because their iron level was
> not quite high enough. They're anemic. However, this is easily enough
> remedied if these women were to take iron supplements.

:-) Well, I don't really see anyone taking supplements just so they
can donate. I suppose women who are pregnant would not be good donors.
But I don't really see any other reason why women can't donate.

> As for me, I don't donate blood. I donate money instead. I actually have
> no excuse for *not* donating blood. It doesn't cost me anything to give
> blood. I'm not afraid of needles...I had enough of them in the past. I
> suspect I don't go for the same reasons as men who have no excuse for not
> going either!

:-) I have a problem donating; my veins are so deep in the middle of
my arm, instead of more on the surface that they have a hard time
getting in, and have to do a thing called a butterfly or some such.
But I do donate, and just warn them first.
>
> Heidi

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