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June 15 - Let's discuss what happened on that day

LindaOH @LindaOHio (222623) • United States 15 Jun 19

National Lobster Day 1667 - The first human blood transfusion is administered by Dr. Jean-Baptiste Denys. 1752 - Ben Franklin proves that lightning is electricity. 1964 - Courteney Cox was born. She is an American actress,...

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I am back from the hospital.A long day

Alfredo Rossi @amadeo (111937) • United States 24 Feb 18

Good late afternoon. I spend the good part of the morning at the hospital. supposed to be there at nine from my blood transfusion. It was a long wait.Did not get my unit of blood till ten thirty or later. This takes two hours or...

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Happy Friday Sept.29th_-------------Blood transfusion

Alfredo Rossi @amadeo (111937) • United States 29 Sep 17

Good afternoon. Back home after receiving one unit of blood. My level has been dropping and hopefully that will give it a boost. It takes two hours for one unit. Hopefully that this will give me some energy on our trip We leave...

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I am alive and full of energy right now(how long will it last)

Alfredo Rossi @amadeo (111937) • United States 23 Apr 17

Good afternoon.What a glorious day that it was. some of you know that I received Two units of blood. The energy have kicked in and feel so much alive. I am back to my old self.Moving around,walking,etc. I loved it.How long will...

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That went well....

Stacey @xstitcher (39048) • Petaluma, California 21 Jan 17

Mom went to her blood transfusion today. They did two bag's worth of blood, which took a few hours. Our family friend and I went to go have lunch while Mom was having her first transfusion so that Mom could maybe sleep a...

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Here's your blood

Bhem @JustBhem (70555) • Davao, Philippines 26 Aug 16

Last time, we had our monthly laboratory. People like me call it our test or exam whether we pass our laboratory. The first lab I have for this month show no result. So they needed to extract another blood from me to check whether...

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blood is life

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I am so tired after transfusing blood to 3 patients

rencarl @rencarl (620) • Philippines 25 Nov 11

Well, I just want share my feelings right now.I just came from an 8 hour duty from the hospital that i am working as a staff nurse. I am so tired because we had 3 patients who are on blood transfusion. I transfused all of them and...

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colostomy

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I'm freeeee!!!!

daeckardt @daeckardt (6237) • United States 4 Jun 11

Two liters of fluid and two pints of blood later, I am ready to go home! It is amazing how being a little short of such things can make such a difference in life! The shortage of blood didn't show up until they gave me the first...

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hospital stay

iv fluids

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Here I go again!!!

daeckardt @daeckardt (6237) • United States 3 Jun 11

Hi everyone, I had a very bad weekend, having slept almost all day and not eating or drinking much at all. I went in for labs on Wednesday and told them I was feeling light-headed and the nurse called me back later in the...

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hospital stay

iv fluids

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5 bags of blOOD?

chuyins123 @chuyins123 (2112) • Philippines 24 Mar 11

My sis was confined in the hospital yesterday and I am here in the city working for a living. I am so concerned but I just can't go home and leave my job. And mom said, she needs blood transfusion as her hemoglobin count...

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Confined Due To Low Hemoglobin

bing28 @bing28 (3795) • Philippines 7 Oct 10

My daughter came home almost unconscious. She was attending mass at the church Sunday night, when all of a sudden what she saw around is all but darkness. She nearly collapsed, when quite revived she rode on a trike and went home....

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Dengue: A serious and deadly disease

kristeena @kristeena (358) • Philippines 22 Aug 10

As a mother, I am afraid of "dengue" a deadly disease that's brought by a tiny mosquito. I'm afraid for my children because there are a lot of dengue cases in school even the teacher of my son got it. My cousin who is 19-yr old...

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Abortion would you support it if you knew baby is deformed.

agrim94 @agrim94 (3805) • India 7 Jan 09

Today with the advancement of the medical science and especially the advancement of radiological diagnosis like ultrasound it is very easy to know if there is any abnormality to the baby in the womb. If the baby has serious...

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what ever happened to that teen that got aids and wanted to marry..

moonlitmagikchild @moonlitmagikchild (22181) • United States 31 Aug 08

before he died in the 80-90s? there was a huge deal made about it and how he had gotten aids from a blood transfusion and he wanted to marry before he died and every one was freaking out because his girlfriends parents were...

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Have you donated blood before?

kiran1978 @kiran1978 (4134) • Australia 6 Mar 08

I recently gave birth to my beautiful daughter on the 4th of March. I had alot of complications and my hemoglobin blood levels went down to a low level of 63. I had to have a blood transfusion - 4 litres of blood, it took 16...

blood transfusion

donate blood

save lives

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I almost died having my gallbladder removed

avonrep1 @avonrep1 (1862) • United States 30 Oct 07

I had my gallbladder removed on the 16th. After the surgery while in recovery, they were preping me to be sent home since it was same day surgery. As they took the IV out to get ready to send me home, I passed out three times,...

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A Cure for the Incurable

lisb777 @lisb777 (4) • United States 22 Jul 07

In my first year of college I was diagnosed with Ulcerative colitis. I became very ill and spent two seperate weeks in and out of a local hospital. I was taking 15 perscribed pills a day. My second visit to the hospital I was so...

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Blood Transfusion and DNA testing

imyourfriend @imyourfriend (7) • Philippines 8 Jul 07

Could you please share your thoughts to me about DNA and blood transfusion? If a person got a blood transfusion, then this person would undertake DNA testing using the blood that runs through their body (to think this is a mixtuer...

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Experirence body weakness

alekshi2508 @alekshi2508 (89) • Philippines 24 Apr 07

I had experienced a very low blood pressure when I was operated a year ago, I was given seven bags of blood due to profusely bleeding.It was post-caesarian situation. My doctor gave me Iberet pill to be taken for a month. I...

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body weakness

low blood pressure

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who have gone into blood transfusion?

alecs76 @alecs76 (657) • Philippines 30 Jan 07

i needed blood when i had a ceasarian birth to my youngest child. they said i lost many blood so they had 2 bags of blood administered intravenously.

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