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Also, If you are on prescription medication for a well-managed chronic condition, you MAY still be egligible to donate, and it might be worth going to a Community blood donation Event to find Out If you're Not Sure. Whenever the Catholic Old Ladies in my Village host a blood donation Event in the Village Hall 2-3 times per year, they always bring in the same individual retired Hospital doctor/Red Cross volunteer to serve as medical expert, and I'm on ADHD Stimulants, and the first time I donated, he spent 15 minutes scrolling around a drug Database on his phone to find out If the trace amounts in my blood would be safe for a blood products recipient, before deciding it's PROBABLY okay, and every time after that, he Just says "oh, it's you", and signs off on letting me donate.

I have a copy of the 9th edition of The Merck Manual, which is a medical reference guide for doctors. The 9th edition was published in 1956 and contains the basics for most common health problems. What diseases should I look up?

I'm moderately surprised and slightly outraged that the Thing where a measles infection deletes some of the previous acquired immunities, has apparently been known about for 70 years, and I didn't learn about it until about 8 years ago, even though both the Immunology class during my Undergraduate Biology, 18 years ago, and when my Kid received his first MMR shot, 13 years ago, are occasions where that fact could and should have been included in the information/recommended Reading I was given, but it wasn't.

Op, what do you think happens to someone who gets cut on the jugular and looses enough blood to feed an adult Human? At night, alone?

I think this is not a very good faith reading of this post

I mean yeah but like regardless of symbolism a vampire feeding in the typical way this post talks about is 100% going to kill someone, or at the very least leave them severally injured

I think that the premise of the post assumes that the vampires aren't like tearing people's whole throats out.

@amanita-the-spore-druid Hey so sorry for tagging you, but i think you are missing the point. Regardless if a vampire feeding in a tradiational manner would kill the "donor" or not, the point is that having your "vegan" vampire take blood from a blood bank isnt any more moral or harmless than tradiational feeding methods. And in fact it ends up being a very liberal not my problem as long as i dont see it kinda manner. The fact of the matter is that having your vampire drink from blood banks is a very indirect way of killing people, but most people just dont consider this and think well the blood was donated so therefore its moral. And because its not directly killing someone, some people just dont care to think about the implications.

this discussion is missing the most important part, which is that a Vampire getting its food from a blood donation Processing service, or a hospital, doesn't NEED to compete with Transfusion/blood product recipients at all. Whole blood and some blood-products need to be discarded if they are still unused after a certain number of weeks of being refrigerared, because the cells only stay alive for so Long and will cause a potassium Thing in the recipient if transfused after the expiration Date, but a Vampire might still eat them. Also, for donor-privacy and infection-safety, most blood Donation services allow the Option to secretly ban one's own Donation from being used, so that a Person who can't opt out of donating for social-coercion reasons, but is aware of a sexual/drug-use/travel/medical History reason for their blood to not be safe for transfusion, won't contaminate everyone. Those donations are later sorted Out based on their pseudonymized number, and they could be directly given to a Vampire, as a rare treat of fresh rather than expired blood.

"You know what's harder than Getting Better? Living Like That" is just the thesis for my whole shit going on right now honestly. You know what's harder than doing my physical therapy? Hurting All The Time. You know what's harder than addressing my gender dysphoria? Hurting All The Time

I'm Doing The Hard Thing and it's *easier* than how I was living before. If you make yourself feel better you will have more energy to spend on Getting Better. Nice inch nails - the upward spiral. Crawl out of your grave Thursday

i love the x files cause it’s like what if the most beautiful woman you’ve ever seen (literal doctor and FBI agent) got slowly convinced into believing in the most bizarre things imaginable by the most beautiful man you’ve ever seen (big stupid doe eyes) (also top FBI agent) and now they’re wanted by the government for being hot. or whatever

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