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Post by hasford1978 on Aug 28, 2023 17:08:21 GMT -5
Hi again everybody I keep popping back not forgot anyone and I'm still A Team crazy 🤣🤣 I'm that obsessed that i got my very first tattoo (at 44 yr old) several weeks ago and it was A Team related in some way. As all us fans know Mr T has the initials T.C.B on his upper left arm and i had the exact same style he has on the same arm so I'm just asking does anyone else have any A Team tattoos because I'm thinking to have another done in the near future?
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Post by amyk on Aug 28, 2023 18:14:54 GMT -5
I didn't know Mr T has the initial T.C.B on his upper left arm! I guess I never paid attention to that. No, I have never had a tattoo (well, maybe one of those play ones that wash off) and never plan to get one. I think if I got a tattoo I would have to stop platelet donation for a period of time. I'm pretty much a monthly platelet donor. But they ask a question about if you have had a tattoo I think in the last three months. So I assume if I answered "yes," they would say I could not donate.
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Post by Katia on Aug 28, 2023 19:14:04 GMT -5
I'm not sure if they would or not. IIRC, I got called to get bloodwork done as a possible marrow donor and it was maybe a month after I'd gotten a tattoo, and I told them and they said it wouldn't be a problem. (I did put off my touchup appointment until after I knew whether they'd need me or not-- my artist was cool with the delay when I told him why.)
I've not had any tattoos or piercings since I started donating blood/platelets, so I'm not sure. You could call and ask. They might just do extra testing or something.
You're lucky you can donate monthly. Even doing platelets depletes my hemoglobin and I usually have to wait a month and a half or two months before it gets high enough again for them not to send me home (I don't know how long exactly because I always wait long enough to be sure-- getting to the place I donate platelets is at least a 20-minute drive, so I don't want to take time off work, go all the way there, and get turned away). I don't know how people do it weekly like they say you can.
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Post by amyk on Aug 31, 2023 22:59:07 GMT -5
Yeah, I think (at least where I donate) platelet donations can be weekly but not to exceed 26 donations per year, or basically every other week on average. However, I found that it takes so much time (from the time I leave home until I return, generally at least 2 1/2 hours and maybe longer depending on how long it takes to process me, get me hooked up, etc.) that trying to do it more than once a month is pretty overwhelming. Plus I don't really want to keep getting stuck more than once a month. I get really antsy sitting there so long, too.
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Post by Katia on Sept 1, 2023 16:23:57 GMT -5
Yeah, I think (at least where I donate) platelet donations can be weekly but not to exceed 26 donations per year, or basically every other week on average. However, I found that it takes so much time (from the time I leave home until I return, generally at least 2 1/2 hours and maybe longer depending on how long it takes to process me, get me hooked up, etc.) that trying to do it more than once a month is pretty overwhelming. Plus I don't really want to keep getting stuck more than once a month. I get really antsy sitting there so long, too. Yeah, I don't find it painful and it doesn't give me anxiety or anything, but it's definitely uncomfortable for me, sitting still for so long and having the needles in my arms and I'm glad when it's done. (Do you do one arm, or both?) Not to mention taking time off work (though I get free "blood donation" leave which is super cool, though technically I don't know if I'm supposed to be using it for as long as platelet donation takes or if they just mean for it to be like an hour), etc. I don't mind getting stuck, though (okay, I find medical stuff fascinating and I like to watch and ask questions). However, it *is* my time to get to watch stuff on Netflix, so yay (even though Netflix rarely has what I want to watch).
*Uncomfortable: last time she used the wrong vein-- I have two good ones in my left arm, but one tends to be a bit more pinchy. However, she wanted to use that one. MISTAKE. My arm went completely numb after a while. It cleared after half an hour or an hour, but man, it sucked until then. NOT using that vein in future. Maybe for a regular blood donation 'cause that's quick (though I had it go numb one time for that too, which wouldn't have been so bad, except that just as the person was about to unhook me, their computer system went down and they got called to go fix it, so I'm lying there thinking, "NOOOOOO!" lol).
I'm due-- probably overdue-- to go again soon. But every time I find a good day to go-- a work-from-home day when I don't have a sports game/class in the evening-- either they're full-up completely or don't have good times (like, next Monday would be perfect... no spots at either of the places near me. This Monday *could* work, but one place is full and my regular place only has times in the morning, and I don't want my *whole* day taken up for this).
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Post by amyk on Sept 2, 2023 17:35:33 GMT -5
I only use one arm. The vein in my other arm is too crummy for anyone to hit. I usually sit there and listen to podcasts on my phone or stuff like that. Occasionally I watch the TV but I'm more into just listening to stuff on my phone. I mainly hate being so cold and take my own blanket even though they will give one. And my arm gets so stiff that when it is time to bend it after they remove the needle, that first bend is kind of painful. Yeah, I'm getting older.....
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Post by Katia on Sept 2, 2023 19:36:14 GMT -5
I once had my tech massage my elbows after she took the needles out, and boy, was that fab, especially as I felt especially stiff that day (I have issues in my left elbow from ringing bass handbells-- they're not that heavy, but man, you feel it, and since I always played a whole line of them "off the table," I was grabbing and dropping quickly and my form probably sucked-- and it can stiffen up if in the same position too long)! Might help to ask for that.
Since I have to use both arms-- don't technically *have* to but they prefer to, and since I have great veins there's no problem-- pretty much all I can do is hold the TV remote and push the buttons with my thumb, lol. I wish I could also read or something, but, no dice.
As far as being cold, I'm fine with the blanket (though I'm an always-cold person), but I've considered getting a fleece bathrobe or a sweatshirt at the thrift store and cutting a slit into the middle of the innner sleeve seam so they can insert the needle!
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Post by amyk on Sept 3, 2023 21:04:16 GMT -5
They don't use both arms at the same time on anyone at my place.....that's great that you played the bass handbells. I was in handbell choir what seems like 100 years ago.....actually about 40 years ago! I played more of the tenor-size bells (is that what you call them?), although may have done a bit of the biggest ones in the bass section. We didn't have those super-big ones though.
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Post by Katia on Sept 7, 2023 16:43:40 GMT -5
We don't have super-big, only down to C3 (but that's still big enough to hug!). It only weighs about 8 pounds (I've read), but something about that weight as a handbell feels heavy! (Maybe the weight distribution.) I would say I can "comfortably" ring G3 and up.
I actually had to stop ringing because of this elbow issue-- my bell director said we could move me to another position, but that would mean taking a position from someone else, and someone else would have to play the big bells (or, leave them out), so I knew that wouldn't be fair (and we have some people who simply couldn't move to a new position, I don't think; they're too used to where they're at). (Also, I would be super-bored playing a two-bell position; if I'm playing at the high end or low end, I might have 5-12 bells I'm playing off the table, so switching to less would be hard.) I'm sometimes a fill-in for people who aren't there, though, or just get thrown in at one end and fill in whatever I can reasonably/musically grab from whatever bells aren't being played.
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Post by Pico Bob on Sept 15, 2023 14:49:09 GMT -5
I googled TCB and it means 'taking care of business '. Nice one hasford1978! What other tattoos are you thinking of getting? TCB is the only A-Team related tattoo that i can remember.
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Post by hasford1978 on Sept 16, 2023 16:46:11 GMT -5
Thanks picobob, yeh tcb means exactly that and definitely something i feel relates 100% to Mr T I have seen a really good tattoo of the van but that is probably very expensive so will probably go for a quote from the series either the most obvious 'I love it when a plan comes together' or one of BA's sayings ' I aint getting on a plane sucka' 'what'ca doin sucka' Or my favourite 'i ain't got no time for no jibba jabber'
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Post by HoudiniDerek on Oct 3, 2023 12:18:29 GMT -5
I hate needles, so I would not get one.
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Post by Katia on Oct 3, 2023 19:27:46 GMT -5
Tattoo needles, aren't... really needle-like. You wouldn't know they were needles except that you're told they are. It hurts in a different way than watching someone shove a syringe into your muscle or needle into your vein. It's not even like if you manage to stab yourself while sewing or with a thumbtack or something. More of an irritation, at least it was for me (but I only have two very small ones on my wrists, so I've never had any large work done or over a bony, more-painful area).
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Post by hasford1978 on Oct 4, 2023 17:13:07 GMT -5
As Katia says yes they are needles but you wouldn't think they were because they don't feel like you would think. I had my first tattoo done earlier this year and had my daughter's name on another tattoo about two months ago and i thought would really be painful, but actually it wasn't to bad, certainly not the level of pain i was expecting..
So either later this year or early next ill have a TAT themed tattoo done
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Post by Katia on Oct 4, 2023 22:12:19 GMT -5
My small ones were only painful in the "irritated" way. The tattooing itself wasn't painful, just that my skin got sick of being messed with.
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