ChemGal
One with keen eye
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Unspeakable airs tomorrow, it's about the tainted blood scandal.
Unspeakable creator has inside perspective on Canada's tainted blood scandal | CBC News
I'm interested to watch, but also a bit hesitant as I've had some pretty overwhelming feelings at times regarding how easily I could have made up a '5th H' - the 4 being homosexuals, Haitians, heroin users, and hemophiliacs (some terms not PC).
Now, the blood supply is much safer. Even with unknown diseases the processing of blood products includes things like pasteurization and filtration to reduce risks. Still though, my husband is not allowed to donate blood based on my blood product use.
And for me, I was alive and having attacks during that time. There just weren't blood products being used for HAE that came from a huge number of donors, it was fresh, frozen plasma back then and I of course wasn't anywhere near the timeline of my diagnosis so wasn't receiving any of that anyway.
Not something I think about all the time, but I did have one evening where it all just hit me and felt pretty anxious about it all. Since then I've certainly had uneasy feelings regarding the topic.
It doesn't help either when people like Pamela Wallin use fear mongering for their reasoning regarding banning paid blood donations, when that is not actually part of their decision making process, but rhetoric tactics they use on the public.
Unspeakable creator has inside perspective on Canada's tainted blood scandal | CBC News
I'm interested to watch, but also a bit hesitant as I've had some pretty overwhelming feelings at times regarding how easily I could have made up a '5th H' - the 4 being homosexuals, Haitians, heroin users, and hemophiliacs (some terms not PC).
Now, the blood supply is much safer. Even with unknown diseases the processing of blood products includes things like pasteurization and filtration to reduce risks. Still though, my husband is not allowed to donate blood based on my blood product use.
And for me, I was alive and having attacks during that time. There just weren't blood products being used for HAE that came from a huge number of donors, it was fresh, frozen plasma back then and I of course wasn't anywhere near the timeline of my diagnosis so wasn't receiving any of that anyway.
Not something I think about all the time, but I did have one evening where it all just hit me and felt pretty anxious about it all. Since then I've certainly had uneasy feelings regarding the topic.
It doesn't help either when people like Pamela Wallin use fear mongering for their reasoning regarding banning paid blood donations, when that is not actually part of their decision making process, but rhetoric tactics they use on the public.