gave at the office (needles)...

[jay]

Gave blood this morning... I hadn't realized that it had been over a year since the last time. I'm slipping... lots of travel conflicts with onsite blood drives, I guess. So now I'm sporting a large purple armband... ;).

No flu shot afterward (I was too late), but I'll get one Friday when I have more blood drawn for my annual comprehensive physical (they do complete blood-chemistry and blood-pathogen panels, too, as well as screen for substances). I'd better avoid poppyseed bagels for a few days ;).

Time to catch up on travel vouchers, get my new badge, and then start the next round of proposals (due a week from Friday).

Comments

[dangerpudding.livejournal.com]

hrmph. They'll take your blood. Mine they won't touch with a 10 foot pole.

[inflectionpoint.livejournal.com]

Yay for giving blood. If I tell the truth, they won't touch mine. And that's even more amazing considering that I can and do take tests and -know- my status for any blood bone viruses we have tests for. Yeah, I had one contact with MSM back in 1992, and that in and of itself would disqualify me, even if the whole rest of my life between then and now hadn't happened.

I still don't know what to do about that either. I know people need blood, but I want the rules changed to reflect medical science and not prejudice and ignorance. What can we do to get these rules changed? What are the steps?