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A heart-warming story (lemmy.world)
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[+] 121 points 8 months ago (7 children)
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  • [–] 39 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    One time I went to Jim and told him it hurt when I moved my arm a certain way. So he kicked me in the knee. It hurt so much I forgot all about my arm. Then he charged me $15,000.

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    • [–] 93 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    That's one way to escape Epstein's island.

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    • [+] 61 points 8 months ago (2 children)
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    • [–] 37 points 8 months ago (23 children)

    When does a hospital casually not have O- blood

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  • [–] 47 points 8 months ago (19 children)

    It’s hard to get people to donate blood at all, and O is the rarest type. It probably happens a lot. And if they’re out of something else, O is universal blood so maybe some gets used for a guy with AB-. But people with O can only take O.

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  • [–] 23 points 8 months ago

    Probably depends on the hospital too. A 19 bed hospital in Vermont probably doesn't keep that much O blood. So if the community experiences some kind of event, it's probably easy for them to run out quickly.

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  • [–] 20 points 8 months ago (12 children)

    To further this, the negative and positive value also matters. Someone with a negative type can only take negative blood, whereas a positive type can accept both.

    Here's a little chart:

    Source

    I wish it were easier to get people to donate. Just this morning I heard a radio advertisement for the blood service that included the line 'please schedule and attend an appointment', which seems wild that so many people book a time then don't show up.

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  • [+] 7 points 8 months ago* (1 child)
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  • [–] 8 points 8 months ago

    From the United States perspective, less blood in reserve drives up prices for the population, so it seems to jive with healthcare as a whole there. I know Canada was buying plasma from them as well in the before times, but I'm not sure about that any more.

    Several new plasma donation clinics have opened up to collect from people with more common blood types. It's interesting to hear the UK ships blood in from the west at all. I would have figured there would be closer options available. Unless Brexit also made that more difficult too.

    I understand the necessity of shipping blood around, but it sure would be nice if everywhere had enough donors to keep the blood in country. Though I suppose even in such a utopia, gold blood would still be sent around the world when necessary.

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  • [–] 6 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    That chart is overcomplicated.
    There are 3 independent markers. A, B, and +.
    Blood can have A or not, B or not, and + or not. When the body doesn't have the marker, it will react to the marker.

    So when you have notA, and get A blood, you will have a reaction.
    notA blood works for everyone, A blood only for A people. A people can take any blood, notA people only notA blood.

    Now do this independently for the 3 markers. AB+ people have all markers so can take any combination. notAnotBnot+ people make blood everyone can take, since there are no markers, but they can't take any other blood with any markers.

    Unfortunately we call not+ -, notAnotB O, notAB B, and AnotB A. So + we invert properly but for A and B we omit them and instead of emptystring when no marker is present we invent O, presumably for 0 markers. This obfuscates the pattern.

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  • [–] 5 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    I wish that wouldn’t happen… does it really seem wild though? People skip all kinds of appointments without calling.

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    Most appointments are to have something done to a person's own benefit. Chiropractic, dental, accountant, that sort of thing. Making an appointment to donate blood to a person you'll never meet is a type of selflessness that surprises me when I hear of people missing those appointments.

    Someone at the clinic I go to once mentioned they had two or three missed appointments every day. I don't know, I suppose I take it more seriously than most, but it strikes me as an odd thing to miss. Especially when the service here calls two days before an appointment to confirm.

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    I understand your dismay. Believe me I’m not saying the behavior is right. I’m just describing what is.

    You nailed it. They will no call no show to appointments to try out wedding cake samples. Giving blood isn’t even fun. They only made the appointment because they didn’t want to look selfish for the blood drive people.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago

    You've reminded me some years ago I donated at a pop up clinic, and it was across the street from a carnival that came to town. They went and got a bunch of ride and games tickets and gave them to blood donors. Big sign over at the carnival, and the clinic was packed.

    That's a random way to get people in, but it worked, and it was fun. Now if only they could take the donation while people wait in line for a ride haha.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago (4 children)

    Isn't O the most common type?

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (3 children)

    No. O is rarest. The chromosome pairs are made of A,B,O. A & B are Dominant, O is recessive. If I've done the math right, there's 144 ways to combine the genes of parents giving a resulting distribution of
    A 33.3%
    B 33.3%
    AB 22.2%
    O 11.1%

    Because AA, AO, OA all result in type A... BB, BO, OB all result in type B... AB and BA both result in type AB... Only OO can produce type O blood.

    Edit: I assumed even distribution of alleles, which is incorrect as pointed out below.

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  • [–] 10 points 8 months ago* (1 child)

    I googled and multiple sources say O+ is the most common type at around 37-39% of the population. You are right about how the genes work but if the majority have two O alleles, then type O is going to propagate and stay common. It also means a lot of people with type A or B are carriers for the O gene and have children with type O. Your math assumes even distribution of all 3 genes

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  • [–] 13 points 8 months ago*

    0- is in high demand because its universal donor; ER's will use it when a patient needs blood before their blood type is established. Afaik ER's do run out of O- sometimes after mass shootings.

    Its odd to not have it available for a (possibly planned) surgery where the doctor is talking to a kid brother (which seems like a hospital visit convo).

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    • [–] 13 points 8 months ago* (7 children)

    My porno scavenging ex step sister in law used to donate blood every 3 moons but one day she just kind of stopped. When we would ask her why she stopped giving blood she told us it's because she watched inspector gadget and he told her that if she kept donating blood she wouldn't get $26.51 to buy some book called Gary Potter and the platypus hymens from some guy she used to scavenge porno with who lives down the street. So many lives lost because she never gave blood again.

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  • [–] 6 points 8 months ago (5 children)

    What turned her into an ex step sister in law?

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    • [+] 8 points 8 months ago (2 children)
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    • [–] 4 points 8 months ago

    Thin the herd

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    [–] 4 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    I hate this story. If this was true he performed medical procedure based on incorrectly obtained consent.

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    This is called "a joke".
    It didn't actually happen.

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  • [–] 0 points 8 months ago* (1 child)

    No it fucking isn't. While I agree (and hope) that it is most likely fake I'm fairly certain, that it was intended to to farm wholesomness and other warm feelings. If you laugh after reading this, you need to examine if you don't have some empathy deficit disorder.

    Edit: OK there is a "thankfully they both died" at the end that was not part of the original tweet, that I missed. I was wrong.

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