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DragonFruit · 61-69, M
I never have successfully donated blood.
The first time I went, I fainted.
The next time, I had broken my ankle and they wouldn’t take it because I was on crutches.
Then for many years I was “permanently banned” because I was “a man who had had sex with another man since 1977, even once”....and I wasn’t going to lie about it, even though I knew that I had been tested and wasn’t HIV positive.
While they reduced that from “lifetime” to "1 year” a few years ago, and down to “3 months” due to a blood shortage due to COVID-19, I have not donated since.
The first time I went, I fainted.
The next time, I had broken my ankle and they wouldn’t take it because I was on crutches.
Then for many years I was “permanently banned” because I was “a man who had had sex with another man since 1977, even once”....and I wasn’t going to lie about it, even though I knew that I had been tested and wasn’t HIV positive.
While they reduced that from “lifetime” to "1 year” a few years ago, and down to “3 months” due to a blood shortage due to COVID-19, I have not donated since.
