Re: Dinner Tonight 4/6/2025

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.