Guest guest Posted July 11, 2005 Report Share Posted July 11, 2005 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 --------------------------------- Sell on Yahoo! Auctions - No fees. Bid on great items. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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