Ghoulies are getting stronger hearts, bodies, and minds in January! (Page 5)

Morning Bill. Glad you had some snow fun.

Snowy Bill toppage!

I'll second the leaving Christmas decorations up as Valentine's decorations. This morning when I was getting ready for work I was trying to think of when I was going to take them all down. Now we don't have to worry about it until February!

Good morning, Bill.

How much snow have you guys had so far this season?

Everyone went away! My printer suddenly decided not to work. You know, right in the middle of the monthly paper work. FUN.

I'm still here, but we've been missing some Ghoulies. We need to get them back!

I know Kendra is on vacation.

Has anyone heard from Dee?

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I'm still crossing my fingers that we get some snow in the next few months.

Morning.

All of this snow talk is making me depressed. Haha

NO SNOW

You had your snow respite, time to get back into it.

Kinda hard to pretend it sand in Maui, eh?

Noooooooooo...I hate it. Booooooooooooooooooooo. We have too much at home.

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Take care, Bill. Hope you feel better soon!!!

While my scans are running I'm browsing the internet, I happened to stumble across this. Bethesda is only an hour from me. I can't think of a good reason why I shouldn't be part of a study.

http://www.cc.nih.gov/blooddonor/donationtypes/hemochromatosis.html

I don't really see what the "study" is...It just sounds like a blood donation program...if they don't use the cells for person-person donation they must use it for research purposes (for ppl who are ineligible for person-person donation for whatever reason, HIV, male-male, etc)...

Sounds cool regardless though! Might as well do it since phlebotomy is your treatment option anyways!

Well, I finished my short run along the beach. Everyone (my brother) is getting packed and moving stuff around because my parents are coming back into this condo today for the rest of their 3 weeks here.

WOW, now I am jealous. Your parents spend 6 weeks in Maui!!

Do you think they're adopting?

No one else will take my blood. I tried with the Red Cross, and the local blood bank. They wouldn't even take it to throw it away. If Bethesda can take it and give it to someone else, or use it for research I'd rather have that done than have it drawn and thrown out.

I was actually doing a search to see if I could still be an organ donor when I came across that.

No...they said 2 was enough. Haha

Oh...I'm just questioning what the "study" part of it is...are they trying to see if they can purify the RBCs from pts with HC to then transfuse them?

It sounds like a great program regardless though. The Red Cross has tons of restrictions due to historical problems (hep B/C, HIV, etc) so they don't take your blood to avoid hemolytic rxns/infections/other random problems in recipients, etc. I have a gay friend who gets pretty aggravated that he can't donate due to historical president. HC is technically probably fine, but I think they would have to wash the cells...I doubt they would be able to use your plasma though.