Video: Trainwide Poll

[strawberryprotector]

 In my efforts to expand our medical supplies and capabilities, I want to be able to establish a blood bank. If you are willing to donate blood to be typed and crossed for use in medical emergencies by other passengers on the train, please reply here as I will be making a list. While I am hoping to get as many people as possible, this is VOLUNTEER ONLY. I will not force anyone to donate. Donations will happen after the next platform once I am able to secure the needed equipment and storage facilities.

Comments

[adropofsunlight]

I know this might make me sound stupid. But when you talk about a blood bank you mean you give blood and it gets put in a bank?

[strawberryprotector]

It's kind of like that. What it'll be is I'll insert a needle into a vein in your arm. There is negative pressure in the bag attached to the needle that will pull blood out of you into the bag until it's full, at which point I'll remove the needle from your arm and bandage the site. Then the tube connecting to the bag gets clamped off to keep it sealed, the bag gets labeled with your name, and put in a specialized refrigerator that will be locked to medical staff only. And if, god forbid, you get hurt badly enough to need blood replaced because you've lost more than your body can replenish on its own, there will still be one sterile needle on the bag that can be inserted back into a vein on you and the bag can be hung on a pole so that gravity assists the blood in leaving the bag and going back into you. Does that help it make more sense?

[adropofsunlight]

Perfect sense. Just never heard of anything like this before, so it's a whole new thing for me to learn and understand.

[strawberryprotector]

That's perfectly understandable. I know there's a lot of differences in the levels of tech and medicine between all the different worlds.

[adropofsunlight]

it's also something I should get to know and understand should it ever be used on myself. That way it isn't as scary.

[strawberryprotector]

If you ever have questions about medical stuff, feel free to ask me. I'm more than happy to help explain it to you. Back home, I'm in school learning to be a doctor, and I'm the son of a doctor, so I've been around the field my whole life.

[adropofsunlight]

Okay. I will keep that in mind should I ever have a question. Though currently, I don't really have anymorequestions.