If you are having a surgery with the potential for lots of bleeding, I’d bank your own blood or get a trusted friend or family member to donate on your behalf. I’ve had to have several surgeries over the last year and refuse blood every time. I won’t be bullied.
Refusing blood is easy. Banking own blood or getting it from a relative in time for a surgery is is easier said than done with the way surgery departments and blood banks currently operate.
I immediately had the same thought! Hell no!
If you are having a surgery with the potential for lots of bleeding, I’d bank your own blood or get a trusted friend or family member to donate on your behalf. I’ve had to have several surgeries over the last year and refuse blood every time. I won’t be bullied.
Refusing blood is easy. Banking own blood or getting it from a relative in time for a surgery is is easier said than done with the way surgery departments and blood banks currently operate.
VE, sad to hear. We used to take designated donations routinely back in the day.