Re: Dinner Tonight 4/6/2025

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.
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I donated blood on Friday and they gave you a gift certificate for an appetizer at Chili's so I went tonight.
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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.