Urgent Blood required for my dad - Type A or Type AB. Call me at 9840613069

Sourav said:
All day long we searched, and so far we have come up with 4 donors :(. And the doctors want at least 6-8 donors from whom the platelets can be harvested.
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By noon i'll let u know how many i can arrange...
 
Hey Sourav, although my blood group aint any of the four, but have posted this on fb and twitter (without the nos. ofcourse). Shall let you know if anything comes up.

Best wishes for your dad.. wish him a speedy recovery...
 
sato1986 said:
I've told my A+ friend in Chennai, to go and also to forward it to friends there. I've given him the details.

Hope your Dad gets a speedy recovery.
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Thanks a ton mate :) Will let you know if someone contacts me.
Meg@M!nd said:
By noon i'll let u know how many i can arrange...
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You are amazing sir! Thank you so much! This just goes to show the awesome quality of members on TE :hap2:

Niks said:
Hey Sourav, although my blood group aint any of the four, but have posted this on fb and twitter (without the nos. ofcourse). Shall let you know if anything comes up.

Best wishes for your dad.. wish him a speedy recovery...
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Thanks for your support mate :) Really appreciated.

agantuk said:
Posted on FB with your numbers. Name given as Sourav - hope that's your real name.
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lol, yes Sourav is my real name :) Thanks for your support again. Much appreciated.
 
Not the right blood group and not in Chennai, but posted to my Facebook with the numbers in the first post. Wish your father a swift recovery and good health.
 
@Sourav

Do you have any contacts in Infosys ?? Or anyone here working in Infosys Chennnai ? (Mcity or Shols). Get your Infy contact to post on the Infosys internal BB and you will surely receive more responses from there. All there will be 15k + people looking at your query and hence you can get your message access to larger audience.
 
I wish a speedy recovery for your dad. May god bless him.

Its a shame I cannot help you despite having A+ blood group, wish I could come to Chennai.

Anyway here wishing a healthy and speedy recovery for your dad. Hope for the best.
 
Just wanted to ask a couple of questions...
1) If u want only the blood palets then u can take any blood right? (Please throw some light on the topic)
2) If you can use any blood. Let me know if there is any "All India Blood Bank" or something of the likes... I can donate blood and get a couple of my friends to donate here and when we get the cards we will courier them to u... And hopefully u can use them there from the blood banks and get the palets out... Does that work????
God wish i concentrated on some biology then would not have to ask such stupid quuestions... But if possible let me know will atleast get some blood for you that way....
 
@saurav, I am ab+ve but not at chennai :( Wishing your father a speedy Recovery btw, have posted on my fb status :)

Had seen your post at the other forum, rather shocked at the count of replies :O

We have a really helpful lot at TE :)
 
Thanks for the replies guys. I am still searching for people with similar blood types so it may take me a while to reply back here. So please bear with me.

@Meg@M!nd - I am not sure of that yet. Today being a Sunday, most of the doctors at Apollo are kinda on leave. So I will be able to confirm on Monday morning. I shall keep you posted on that. Thanks again for your support :). Much appreciated.

@avinashwarrier - Thanks for your support buddy. Much appreciated. I was as shocked as you are at the number of replies to my thread on the other forum. Guess that forum is all hot air. bah, leave it. I have all the help I ever wanted from the awesome TE junta :D

@lida - Your questions are fine mate. I had the same queries as you do. Afaik, platelets differ in different blood types. Although, I had asked the doctor the same question as you have posted here, I did not get an answer to the question. All I was told is that the blood platelets have to be extracted from a fresh blood sample from a healthy donor of type A or AB. And since the blood sample has to be fresh, it's no use going to a blood bank. Apollo is very peculiar about certain things, sadly.

@raksrules - My wife has contacts in Infosys and quite a few other service based companies. First thing on Monday, emails will be sent out. Since this platelet issue came into light on the weekend, we couldn't approach the service based companies junta :(. But no matter, because all Chennai based IT folk will be getting the emails soon. :) Thanks for the advice mate.

@cranky - Yes. Sadly dad's blood type was the one thing which had ruined the doctors face when this issue came into the light. The expression was just terrible. Anyways, nothing much can be done about that. Let's hope for the best. Thank you for your wishes and support :)

@everyone who took time out to go through this thread and reply - Can't thank you all enough for the amazing support you have shown. You are all aces in my book :) I am proud to be a member of TE. Thank you all once again.
 
Sourav said:
@Meg@M!nd - I am not sure of that yet. Today being a Sunday, most of the doctors at Apollo are kinda on leave. So I will be able to confirm on Monday morning. I shall keep you posted on that.
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I'm A+ n a friend AB+, 2 guys here ready on tuesday...
 
Back after a long day at the hospital. My good friend, Rahul was the first to donate platelets today. Many many thanks to you brother :hug:. You have always been there for me, and now you have helped out my family as well. We shall forever be grateful to you :). Many thanks again mate.

Anyways, the platelet collection process involves quite a lot of faff. Firstly, a sample of your blood is collected and analyzed. That process alone takes about 1-2 hours. Once your blood report comes in and everything checks out okay, then the doctor will call you in for the extraction. If you have had your lunch some time before, then you will have to wait again for 45 minutes to 1 hour before the platelets can be extracted. So in total, assuming you come in around 11AM in the morning, it will be atleast 4:00-4:30 PM by the time you will have finished donating the platelets. And this is assuming there are beds available for donation.

So, if anyone from TE is interested in donating platelets, here is my suggestion. Please come in tomorrow anytime between 9AM and 3PM. That's the time frame within which they accept blood samples. You only need to spend 30 minutes at the maximum to give your blood sample. I would not want to keep you all at the hospital for the entire day, and since the report is supposed to take about 1-2 hours, please feel free to leave after you have given your blood sample and go about your day. Once your report comes in and everything has checked out okay, I will get back to you. After that, you can come in any day from 9AM to 4:30PM till Saturday to donate your platelets. Platelet donation will take about 1-1.5 hours at the maximum. I will be at the hospital everyday this week from 9AM to 5PM. Please feel free to call be anytime if you need any more clarifications.

Thanks again you guys for the phenomenal level of support :) TE is awesome! :clap:
 
I would suggest donor to provide their sample at the evening itself and if all comes good then arrive at the time of donation the blood i.e Tuesday.

@ Sourav

Wish your father speedy and painless recovery.
 
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