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Nurses and too-B Nurses Do you know your blood type? HUH?
There are 8 basics and thats what well list here.
Not much need for comment except if you are an negative then state if you have had Rho-Gam.
[ ] A+
[ ] A-
[x] B+
[ ] B-
[ ] AB+
[ ] AB-
[ ] O+
[ ] O-
[ ] Do you donate? I've donated a few times. How frequently? Once or twice a year
O+ (I assume its + since I've been pregnant twice and never received Rho-gam. Both my kids are O+
I have tried several time to donate but I'm turned away for being "under" the required weight requirement and when I was a bit heavier, I was also anemic so I wasn't allowed to donate then. so, nope never was able to donate but wish I could.
I've donated whole blood a total of 8 times, but I've been deferred at least as many times, always for anemia. I don't consider myself "anemic", but my iron isn't usually high enough for Red Cross standards. I tried donating plasma a couple of times a few years ago, but my body didn't cope well with it.
O+ I haven't donated in 6 or so years. I didn't meet the weight requirement for some time. Then I was pregnant, then breastfeeding, then pregnant AND breastfeeding, then breastfeeding...
Nurses and too-B Nurses Do you know your blood type? HUH?
There are 8 basics and thats what well list here.
Not much need for comment except if you are an negative then state if you have had Rho-Gam.
[ ] A+
[ ] A-
[ ] B+
[ ] B-
[ ] AB+
[ ] AB-
[ ] O+
[ x] O-
[ ] Do you donate?_no, I don't weigh enough___________ How frequently
[ ] Type Negatives? Did you receive Rho-Gam? lots of times _________