Fluff - Do you know your blood type?

I used to know. They told me I’m O+ after my last surgery but I swear that wasn’t what I was before. I think the nurse didn’t read my chart right. I know it can’t change and I have been curious if I really am O+.

I'm O+, the only remaining O in a family of As on my side and DH's side. My dad was the O+, mum is A- and my brother is A+. DH and all his lot are A+.

Well done gar

Oh - too many blood transfusions not to know.

Yes, I was in the military and it was on my dog tags.

I used to donate blood on a regular basis and the Red Cross gives you a frequent donor card that has your blood type on it.

When my son was going through his cancer treatment, the Mayo Clinic wanted to have all of his bloodwork done at their own lab in Minnesota.  Since we lived in California, I found a place that would draw the number of vials that were required and put them on dry ice to ship them to the Mayo labs.  My son was very concerned about the number of vials needed.  It was the largest volume of his own blood that he had seen and it really upset him.

So to help him put it into perspective, I decided to donate my blood and took him with me to see the much larger volumn of blood taken from me.  They would not allow him to come back to the draw area, but when I explained why I needed my son to see that I could donate a full bag and be ok, the nurse had him come and stand in the doorway and she held the bag of my blood up so he could see how big it was in comparison to what he had taken with his many blood draws. He was shocked that I could get up and walk after having so much blood removed.  It made a huge impression on him and he stopped being afraid of his frequent blood draws.

I know I was told when I had dd but have long forgotten. I would love to donate blood but just thinking about it makes me light headed. How can I get typed now?

I donate blood when my iron levels are high enough.

You probably can't unless you want to pay for it, most likely. It's not a necessary lab unless you need blood or are having a procedure where you might need blood, in which case it's always going to be drawn no matter what you say you think you are. (we never give blood without a new crossmatch unless you're dying and don't have time for that, in which case you'd get O- the universal donor type).

Getting it done for free is a bit of a perk when you give blood.

I have at some point but don’t remember now. If I need to know I always ask DH, and then promptly forget again 

There are kits you can buy from Amazon. Not very expensive. I think they're about £10.

Funny story. In grade school we were typed. They let us all prick ourselves and I thought it was the coolest!
We had to ask our parents both their types, and we did a little experiment with it.
I came back B+. My parents were both A+. Never thought a thing about it until many years later!  

I am also AB+. Up until now, I was the only person I knew with that blood type!

I didn’t know until my thirties during pregnancy.