[Sca-cooks] Re: Blood donors

[Tara Sersen Boroson]

Even Epogen doesn't work that fast.  When you're talking about someone 
who could be dead within minutes, you don't have time to wait days for 
Epogen to stimulate red blood cell production.  I'm sorry, but I agree 
with Avaraham on this one.  While it may be true that sometimes blood 
products are used because they're convenient despite the fact that 
they're not the only option available, there is no doubt that there 
are times when they are critical.  There is a world of difference 
between encouraging people not to accept blood products when there are 
suitable alternatives, and encouraging people not to donate blood in 
the first place.  The former is probably better for many people, and 
will help preserve our blood supply for those instances when it is 
critical and irreplacable; The later is dooming a lot of people to 
death.  Someone who is in a car accident and is brought into the 
hospital bleeding profusely will simply be dead without an 
introduction of blood.  They won't be kind of dead until the Epogen 
has a few days to do it's thing.  They will be dead, empty of blood, 
kaput, drained.

Please, Soffya, stop telling people not to donate.  You're not helping 
anybody.

I was really trying to stay out of this conversation, but this recent 
turn has me too disturbed.  I give blood every eight weeks at Miller 
Memorial Blood Center in Bethlehem, PA, and want to slap people who 
say "Oh, I could, but it's inconvenient or icky or it hurts"

-Magdalena

> Then it would be Epogen.  One of them is a red blood cell enhancer.  
I did
> not answer to inflame.  Do not assume that I did.
> 
> Soffya