Silly phlebotomists!
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I got a call at home last week asking me to come in to donate blood because the blood bank is so low. I waited until the bloodmobile came to work today. I answered that yes, I am under a doctor's care for a sleep disorder but nothing has been officially diagnosed and I am taking no medications for it. After 30 minutes and 5 phone calls later they decided they need my doctor to sign a release form. I'm all for donating blood but it seems like it gets more and more complicated each time. So someone might go without blood because what, I might fall asleep in the lounger? I've already done that. So now I have to fax this release to my doctor (making a long distance call to find out what their fax number is) and have them fax it back, then send to the blood bank. I'm ready to say 'forget it' and go get some new piercings. (I've been putting those off because you have to wait a year to donate again.) Silly hyper-vigilant phlebotomists!
__________________ Bob is my homeboy.
After your post(s) about sleep disorders (and given the fact I'm enough to cause anyone to not sleep well) I started doing a lot of research into my own Apnea which I've learned is caused Central Apnea. I've learned it has positively shredded my sleep cycle and that I've basically been living under the guise that horrible sleep was normal. Central Apnea is a brain disorder caused (in most cases) by trauma to the head and I've had 2 'marked instances' of head trauma. So portions of my brain that control sleep are pulverized into not working correctly. So quite accidentally I started taking a certain medication that shall remain nameless to protect errr ... the gerbils running the servers here. From the medicine I was like, "My gosh I've never woke up feeling so great in my life!" so I ask my doc-in-the-box about it and they basically say, "by all means here's more" but don't tell me why. Not really enjoying being a pill-popper I decide to talk to the researcher who originally diagnosed my 97 apnic events per hour of Central Apnea. She says, "Um... Yeah! If you came and saw more often than every 8 years we'd have had you fixed up a long time ago." She went on to explain that the medication I had stumbled upon reduces Central Apnic events by as much as 60% in sleep trials of a *very* limited sample but that her patients with Central Apnea have all benefited. She says, "How's your wakefulness?" and I say, "Caffeine in grams baby! Couldn't be better... {slight pause} actually I'm tired a lot and it sucks." She says, well we are going to put histamine on your brain and I say, "Yeah, that makes sense. Anti-histamine makes you tired so histamine should do the opposite right?" She says yes. Then she says something I wasn't expecting. "How's your back and legs?" :omg: I sit for a second and then I say, "Gosh, they hurt like hell most of the time but I thought it was from working out." She says, I watched your sleep study again and you have Restless Leg Syndrome and from your movements your back should hurt like hell and your legs should ache each morning like you ran a marathon the day before." :doh: I say, "Uh, yeah that's about right." She says, "Why don't you come see me every 6 months so I can help you?" and I say, "Cuz I'm stupid.":-O So the crazy thing is that I have some damage to regions of my brain that really put in me in a bind. Chemicals are missing completely and certain critical messages never get sent (talk about a networking problem). So I'm 5 days into a complete therapy change and man... I'm in a good mood
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Well, I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a bloody phlebotomy... :~ :doh:
Gosh my kids were all done with the bottle at a year old. Sure you still need a bottle?:->
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After your post(s) about sleep disorders (and given the fact I'm enough to cause anyone to not sleep well) I started doing a lot of research into my own Apnea which I've learned is caused Central Apnea. I've learned it has positively shredded my sleep cycle and that I've basically been living under the guise that horrible sleep was normal. Central Apnea is a brain disorder caused (in most cases) by trauma to the head and I've had 2 'marked instances' of head trauma. So portions of my brain that control sleep are pulverized into not working correctly. So quite accidentally I started taking a certain medication that shall remain nameless to protect errr ... the gerbils running the servers here. From the medicine I was like, "My gosh I've never woke up feeling so great in my life!" so I ask my doc-in-the-box about it and they basically say, "by all means here's more" but don't tell me why. Not really enjoying being a pill-popper I decide to talk to the researcher who originally diagnosed my 97 apnic events per hour of Central Apnea. She says, "Um... Yeah! If you came and saw more often than every 8 years we'd have had you fixed up a long time ago." She went on to explain that the medication I had stumbled upon reduces Central Apnic events by as much as 60% in sleep trials of a *very* limited sample but that her patients with Central Apnea have all benefited. She says, "How's your wakefulness?" and I say, "Caffeine in grams baby! Couldn't be better... {slight pause} actually I'm tired a lot and it sucks." She says, well we are going to put histamine on your brain and I say, "Yeah, that makes sense. Anti-histamine makes you tired so histamine should do the opposite right?" She says yes. Then she says something I wasn't expecting. "How's your back and legs?" :omg: I sit for a second and then I say, "Gosh, they hurt like hell most of the time but I thought it was from working out." She says, I watched your sleep study again and you have Restless Leg Syndrome and from your movements your back should hurt like hell and your legs should ache each morning like you ran a marathon the day before." :doh: I say, "Uh, yeah that's about right." She says, "Why don't you come see me every 6 months so I can help you?" and I say, "Cuz I'm stupid.":-O So the crazy thing is that I have some damage to regions of my brain that really put in me in a bind. Chemicals are missing completely and certain critical messages never get sent (talk about a networking problem). So I'm 5 days into a complete therapy change and man... I'm in a good mood
It's good to know that you're getting treatment that's on the right track. I really wish my test results would come in before next month. And you're not stupid! I think when it comes to sleep we think it will just pass. And most men I know are hesitant about going to the doctor. (I think it's either the turn and cough, or after a certain age they perform another test...)
__________________ Bob is my homeboy.
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I try to get at least one tattoo a year so i dont have to be bothered by all of that...
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It's good to know that you're getting treatment that's on the right track. I really wish my test results would come in before next month. And you're not stupid! I think when it comes to sleep we think it will just pass. And most men I know are hesitant about going to the doctor. (I think it's either the turn and cough, or after a certain age they perform another test...)
__________________ Bob is my homeboy.
Doctors don't bother me. It was keeping a kid alive that was born right after my study concluded, losing my job, losing my home, rebuilding my life, rebuilding my family, running a small business and well... who has time to sleep?:-D Sleep is for ninnies right?:laugh:
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Donating blood is cool! It gives you a warm fuzzy feeling and a fuzzy (not inherently warm) plush pelican (in my case, YMMV)! Very rewarding, and excellent for your tree-hugger-ness, which I for one try to build up as much as is possible. Yes, I do as a rule try and convince more people to donate blood. :)
Paul
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How much time is left?[^]Personally I don't get a warm fuzzy feeling...more of a light-headed, need to sit down for awhile feeling. But I have a common blood type (A+) and I would hate to think someone died because I was too selfish not to give blood. I mean, the body makes more, right? My husband does not give because he has a fear (translation...passess out) of needles.
__________________ Bob is my homeboy.
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Doctors don't bother me. It was keeping a kid alive that was born right after my study concluded, losing my job, losing my home, rebuilding my life, rebuilding my family, running a small business and well... who has time to sleep?:-D Sleep is for ninnies right?:laugh:
code-frog wrote:
keeping a kid alive that was born right after my study concluded, losing my job, losing my home, rebuilding my life, rebuilding my family, running a small business
Yeah, I wouldn't sleep if I had all that either.
code-frog wrote:
rebuilding my life, rebuilding my family,
When I was attached to all the cords during the study I kept thinking, "We can get her to sleep...we have the technology..." Of course you have to be over a certain age to get the reference.
__________________ Bob is my homeboy.
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code-frog wrote:
keeping a kid alive that was born right after my study concluded, losing my job, losing my home, rebuilding my life, rebuilding my family, running a small business
Yeah, I wouldn't sleep if I had all that either.
code-frog wrote:
rebuilding my life, rebuilding my family,
When I was attached to all the cords during the study I kept thinking, "We can get her to sleep...we have the technology..." Of course you have to be over a certain age to get the reference.
__________________ Bob is my homeboy.
leckey wrote:
When I was attached to all the cords during the study
That's a freaky feeling. I had 2 sleep studies because they didn't trust the Apnic events the first time around. Second time they hit them again inside of 2 hours so they CPAP'd me but that didn't change the creepy feeling that I was some kind of borg machination. I watched Matrix some time later and just had to laugh at the conceptual similarities. I had a sleep study and took the red pill.
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code-frog wrote:
keeping a kid alive that was born right after my study concluded, losing my job, losing my home, rebuilding my life, rebuilding my family, running a small business
Yeah, I wouldn't sleep if I had all that either.
code-frog wrote:
rebuilding my life, rebuilding my family,
When I was attached to all the cords during the study I kept thinking, "We can get her to sleep...we have the technology..." Of course you have to be over a certain age to get the reference.
__________________ Bob is my homeboy.
leckey wrote:
We can get her to sleep...we have the technology..."
Insert Booooinnnngggg here(imagine the sound to go with the quote). How Bionic :laugh:
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Donating blood is cool! It gives you a warm fuzzy feeling and a fuzzy (not inherently warm) plush pelican (in my case, YMMV)! Very rewarding, and excellent for your tree-hugger-ness, which I for one try to build up as much as is possible. Yes, I do as a rule try and convince more people to donate blood. :)
Paul
Pauliastan in The Code Project, password:
byalmightybob
How much time is left?[^]Paul van der Walt wrote:
Donating blood is cool! It gives you a warm fuzzy feeling
That only happens when you donate too much blood in a short amount of time... :rolleyes:
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I got a call at home last week asking me to come in to donate blood because the blood bank is so low. I waited until the bloodmobile came to work today. I answered that yes, I am under a doctor's care for a sleep disorder but nothing has been officially diagnosed and I am taking no medications for it. After 30 minutes and 5 phone calls later they decided they need my doctor to sign a release form. I'm all for donating blood but it seems like it gets more and more complicated each time. So someone might go without blood because what, I might fall asleep in the lounger? I've already done that. So now I have to fax this release to my doctor (making a long distance call to find out what their fax number is) and have them fax it back, then send to the blood bank. I'm ready to say 'forget it' and go get some new piercings. (I've been putting those off because you have to wait a year to donate again.) Silly hyper-vigilant phlebotomists!
__________________ Bob is my homeboy.
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Gosh my kids were all done with the bottle at a year old. Sure you still need a bottle?:->
Hmmm... Well, when you put it that way I guess I would consider the alternative. :rolleyes:
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Hmmm... Well, when you put it that way I guess I would consider the alternative. :rolleyes:
A keg? :-D
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A keg? :-D
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I got a call at home last week asking me to come in to donate blood because the blood bank is so low. I waited until the bloodmobile came to work today. I answered that yes, I am under a doctor's care for a sleep disorder but nothing has been officially diagnosed and I am taking no medications for it. After 30 minutes and 5 phone calls later they decided they need my doctor to sign a release form. I'm all for donating blood but it seems like it gets more and more complicated each time. So someone might go without blood because what, I might fall asleep in the lounger? I've already done that. So now I have to fax this release to my doctor (making a long distance call to find out what their fax number is) and have them fax it back, then send to the blood bank. I'm ready to say 'forget it' and go get some new piercings. (I've been putting those off because you have to wait a year to donate again.) Silly hyper-vigilant phlebotomists!
__________________ Bob is my homeboy.
I give platelets every 3 weeks (only passed out once, when I didn't eat beforehand). All this time I had no idea of the existence of the word "phlebotomist". Thanks! It's my learned word of the day. I will try to use it in conversation a few times today. Mark Go Team A+, CMV-!
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Gosh my kids were all done with the bottle at a year old. Sure you still need a bottle?:->
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code-frog wrote:
Sure you still need a bottle?
I do when it's filled with Macallan 18 Gran Reserva...
Mike Poz
Mike Poz wrote:
I do when it's filled with Macallan 18
Ah, a man of fine tastes! :)
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leckey wrote:
I answered that yes
I find life is much easier when I lie through most of the anal-retentive questions the beauracracy insists on asking. Of course, my girlfriend keeps me on the straight and narrow, so I rarely get the opportunity. The most interesting questionnaire is the jury duty one. Are you 18 or older? Are you a US Citizen? Have you been convicted of felony? etc... Answer No, No, and Yes respectively (you get the idea) and you have to show PROOF that you aren't lying. But if you're a 16 year old Cuban felon and answer Yes, Yes, and No respectively, they don't require proof. Go figure. (Now, for all you Cubans, that was just a random country. I could have picked Iraq or Iran or North Korea, ah, well, hmmm, I'll stop now.) :) Marc
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But if you're a 16 year old Cuban felon and answer Yes, Yes, and No respectively, they don't require proof.
I take it you know this from personal experience, eh? ;P
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JazzJackRabbit wrote:
That's the lawyer's job to verify the information since they pick the jurors. If they do not and it turns out later someone provided false information judge may declare mistrial.
Well yes. But I was referring to the stupid questionnaire form NY state sends out to pre-qualify you. Marc
People are just notoriously impossible. --DavidCrow
There's NO excuse for not commenting your code. -- John Simmons / outlaw programmer
People who say that they will refactor their code later to make it "good" don't understand refactoring, nor the art and craft of programming. -- Josh SmithThere is a medical form I have to regularly fill out, it asks "Have you ever taken illegal drugs?". Is this supposed to be a trick question? :confused:
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I got a call at home last week asking me to come in to donate blood because the blood bank is so low. I waited until the bloodmobile came to work today. I answered that yes, I am under a doctor's care for a sleep disorder but nothing has been officially diagnosed and I am taking no medications for it. After 30 minutes and 5 phone calls later they decided they need my doctor to sign a release form. I'm all for donating blood but it seems like it gets more and more complicated each time. So someone might go without blood because what, I might fall asleep in the lounger? I've already done that. So now I have to fax this release to my doctor (making a long distance call to find out what their fax number is) and have them fax it back, then send to the blood bank. I'm ready to say 'forget it' and go get some new piercings. (I've been putting those off because you have to wait a year to donate again.) Silly hyper-vigilant phlebotomists!
__________________ Bob is my homeboy.
I always trigger nervous reaction when I slumber while donating blood. I feel perfectly comfortable there, and having a needle in my arm somehow relaxes me even more. There is a comment on our (German) blood donor IDs, saying: "If the person carrying this card ever receives a blood transfusion and is expected to pay for it themselves, please contact the German Red Cross ...". Does anyone know what this is about? I would suspect that the Red Cross will cover the expenses? Also, are any of you guys organ donors? I felt that this was a necessary thing, I don't want someone to die because my relatives cannot decide on whether to donate my heart or not.... I made that decision. On Topic: In Germany, the Red Cross usually sets up in a school or public building of some kind. There will be several steps during blood donation, one of them being a doctor questioning you for your recent medical history. The doctor decides if you are fit or not, and they always have the last word. The last step is a anonymous (towards other donors) self-exclusion. If you have been forced to donate blood by peer pressure, but are ill (HIV, Hepatitis, etc.), you can prevent the Red Cross from using your blood. The donation of self-excluded individuals will be processed as usually (even counting towards the small things you get when you donate the 25th time, etc.), but will be burned after the lab tests. Also, they go to a special lab, afaict.
Cheers, Sebastian -- Ceterum censeo, borlandem esse delendam.