Donating can take 1-1.5hrs. Is safe, and if you want to donate regularly, can donate plasma every 2 weeks. Great way to give back (plus free noms!). If interested if finding a centre near you visit lifeblood
Also the eligibility check is fairly quick too Check eligibility
Due to a myriad of reasons including blood drives being cancelled, regular donors cancelling appointments, and hospitals being full there is a national blood shortage going on right now. If you meet the requirements to donate blood please consider donating!
I know there are folks who have issues with the red cross so I have provided some links to other organizations who will take blood donations:
Children's National Center National Institute of Health Blood Bank
Seriously, your blood could save a life. If you meet the requirements and are able to donate blood please consider making an appointment!
Maybe you'll be like me and have blood that's CMV Negative and your blood can go to babies who need specialized blood products.
Don't have time to donate every six weeks? Want to make your time in the chair count for more? Consider a power red donation! They use a machine to take your red blood cells (the most frequently used blood component) and put your plasma and platelets back in. This type of donation can only be done three times a year so you can still do some good if you can only sneak away from work less frequently.
Have two-ish hours to burn? Want to sit and watch a movie while helping cancer patients? Consider donating platelets. Platelets only have a shelf life of five days so there is always a critical need for them. Yes it's uncomfortable but is a two hours of you being uncomfortable worth someone else's life? I'd trade that any day.
Want to go even further? Join the Be The Match marrow registry! It's quick, it's easy, non-invasive, and free! You could be identified as a match for someone with a potentially fatal cancer and a transfusion of your marrow could
... keep reading on reddit ➡Hey there Phoenix people. I'm not a doctor or phlebotemist...heck I don't work in medicine at all, I'm just an ordinary guy that likes to give back when he can and for me that's often included donating blood. As of my last appointment I'll have made 15 donations and after my next donation I'll be at over two gallons. Blood is in very short supply right now so if you are eligible I would highly recommend making an appointment for a donation...you never know whose life you may end up changing or saving. There are also free snacks involved. If anyone has any advice, anecdotes, or additional resources please feel free to add!
Vitalant:
>There’s a national blood shortage due to the pandemic. All healthy donors are urged to donate now; if you’ve had COVID-19 and have been symptom-free for 14 days, you are eligible to donate. Whatever your COVID-19 vaccination status, you are ABSOLUTELY allowed to give blood or platelets.
Red Cross:
>The American Red Cross is facing a national blood crisis – its worst blood shortage in over a decade, posing a concerning risk to patient care. Doctors have been forced to make difficult decisions about who receives blood transfusions and who will need to wait until more products become available. Blood and platelet donations are critically needed to help prevent further delays in vital medical treatments.
Thank you!
As the title says, yesterday I received a bill from a blood specialist that I saw in August of 2020. Since that appointment, I have received numerous small bills which I have paid all of (verified with my HSA transaction history). Fast forward to yesterday, I received a bill of about $300 that states "final notice" etc etc indicating they'll be sending me to collections. I tried calling them yesterday but they closed early but will be calling back today. I have no idea what's this remaining bill could be for as I thought I had paid it all. What should I do, just pay it?
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Considering getting my blood work done to optimize for hormones. Sex drive has slowed down a bit with the wife and we’re trying to have a kid. I want to get my blood drawn with advice on how to optimize my hormones.
I have pretty solid health insurance with Kaiser. So if I can pay pretty little out of pocket I want to do that. Derek’s service seems to be only a couple hundred bucks.
Anyone got any feedback on pricing and the quality of the services?
This is going to be a bit of a long one, but I recently wrapped up a lengthy fight with EA that ended happily and based on the number of posts I've seen here about banned accounts or purchased content disappearing I thought that my story might help a few people out.
The Incident
One day quite a while back I logged in to my Apex account and noticed that all my settings were weird. Keybindings were different, my mouse sensitivity was different, lots of strange changes. After my first game I noticed that my account in general was looking different -- I was a higher battlepass level than I should have been and some of my crafting materials were gone. At this point I realized that my account had been hacked and immediately changed my password and enabled two-factor authentication (which everyone should do right now!).
Looking through the changes on my account I noticed that some very specific crafting materials (that rhymed with Bearloom Bards) that I had recently purchased with real money had been spent on something I didn't want. I figured that I should contact EA support and tell them about the hack and ask them to remove the items that the hacker had purchased and either refund the materials or grant me the item that I had intended to purchase. Simple, right?
The Support (or lack thereof)
On my first attempt I tried live chat support because it's 2021, I don't want to talk on the phone. The guy I got was pretty useless -- he offered to change my password for me (no thanks, already did that) and enable two-factor (no thanks, already did that too), but when I asked him about changing the item he said "unfortunately we can't make any changes because it's a live game" whatever the hell that means.
Next step was phone support. The first person I talked to was actually kind of helpful. She informed me that yes, she could see a couple of suspicious logins on my account from halfway across the world, but she "was unable to confirm that the purchase was the result of the hack" despite there being a suspicious login and then the purchase with nothing else in between. I bashed my head against this wall for a while and then gave up, hoping to find a more reasonable support agent.
The next 3 support agents I talked to were somewhere between malicious and incompetent. They were profoundly uninterested in helping me with anything, and even lied to me several times. I particularly enjoyed this conversation:
Me: I talked with another support age
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