# So, My Retirement is Over

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [August 18, 2019, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-my-retirement-is-over/838850 "2019-08-18T21:29:28Z")\
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**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\
**Post date:** [August 24, 2019, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-my-retirement-is-over/838850/21 "2019-08-24T21:17:29Z")

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I am eager to learn who can donate, medication-wise. I was learning how to recruit outside a Walmart on Friday (Basically, letting people know they’d get a $10 gift card to Wally World for donating at that Big Red Bus parked right over yonder) and one guy said he had high blood pressure. My trainer told him donating blood could actually help (which makes sense if you think about it) with blood pressure.

According to her, people taking 90% of the medications can still donate. Pregnant women can’t, obviously. I’ll learn more about all that next week. I did get one young man who may have been homeless on the bus…we saw him when we drove in, carrying a plastic bag and just hanging out. He seemed okay (not strung out or anything) and I was glad to get him out of the Florida heat for a bit and give him some juice and cookies. Plus, with the gift card, he may have been able to get a few supplies. (Heartbreakingly, he asked me if he would get the gift card right away.)

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**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\
**Post date:** [August 25, 2019, 9:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-my-retirement-is-over/838850/22 "2019-08-25T09:15:04Z")

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Congratulations **ivylass**! I have over 100 donations and am closing in on 200. Your new company is doing great work. Saving many lives. And thank you for the docs you sent me. Through LinkedIn, I landed a job with a company that treats people with brain tumors — noninvasive brain surgery; Zap Surgical, [https://zapsurgical.com/](https://zapsurgical.com/). It is rewarding work, it’s a privilege to work there. I’m less than 10 years from retirement and am polishing off my retirement savings.

> [@Baker](#):
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> ivylass, congratulations! As others have said, you are in a life saving business.
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> Also, thanks for those documents you sent me, I’m looking them over.
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> Do you mind if I include a link here to a story about an Australian man, a blood donor? His name is James Harrison, and he and I have one thing in common, a dislike of needles. I, like he, have never seen the needle in my arm. But he’s _ **WAY** _ ahead of me in donations.
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> [https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/11/health/james-harrison-blood-donor-retires-trnd/index.html](https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/11/health/james-harrison-blood-donor-retires-trnd/index.html)

Great article **Baker** , thanks for the link!

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