I hate needles. Hate 'em.
BUUUT, I've been thinking about donating blood since I got signed up with Be The Match... if they'd take coffee-based blood, that is.
So, I started to look into it. And, like hundreds of thousands of others who served over there from 1980 to 1996, I cannot give blood, either to the Red Cross or the Armed Services Blood Program. (How's that for irony?)
We were, apparently, running the risk of exposure to Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, the ubiquitous "Mad Cow" disease.
I've seen pictures of autopsied brains with this stuff... they look like an old sponge.
I'm just mentioning this stuff as a public service. heads up, Cold War vets.
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With some of the crap we were exposed to deployed anywhere, I'm surprised they accept any blood from Veterans.
My time in Germany was 1971 to 1974 and I have no idea if that or my time in Vietnam would preclude me if I offered to donate.
On another note, isn't it ironic that Veterans would be denied donating blood while efforts are underway to allow homosexuals to donate blood.
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