Donating your own blood

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Hi Everyone,

I have my surgery planned for July 27th. I don't know all the correct

terminology, but I am having both my upper and lower jaws broken and brought

forward. I will have a total of 5 breaks. My surgeon recommends donating your

own blood beforehand to be given back to you after the surgery. I was planning

on doing this until I found out the cost. My insurance won't cover personal

donations, and the cost to ship and store my blood is $650. I know in the big

scheme of things this isn't a ton, but it is all adding up and I'm feeling over

whelmed.

I talked to my surgeon about getting donated blood, but they said that I won't

necessarily need the blood, they just like to put your own blood back into your

body to " super charge the recovery. "

For $650 I don't know how " super charged " this will be. They won't give me

shelf blood, b/c it defeats the purpose of super charging your recovery, and say

I won't lose enough to have to resort to that. In rare cases if I do lose that

much, they will give me shelf blood.

So....do any of you have advise for me? Have any of you chosen not to donate?

What was the outcome? Any help would be greatly appreciated. I only have a few

more days to decide before it's too close to my surgery.

Thanks a ton!

Nichol

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