I'll never know. They have a program now where you can do a double donation (they take out 2 pints and put back in the plasma) that would allow the donor to donate only every 16 weeks.  Well, since I hate the donation process, that sounded good for me!

BUT (always one, eh?), since I am a universal donor, they want ALL my components, so they will only take a pint at a time.  It was a bit humerous back in the spring.  They had 2 of us in the chairs and were asking us if we would want to do the 2fer.  Both of us said "hell yea", but then the lady looked at our charts and said "oh, sorry, you have to give all of your blood, so we can only take 1".  I dont know how many 2fers they got that day, but there were 2 of us that were disappointed.

Women are especially susceptible to that.  I hope you get it strengthened soon.  I once turned up anemic.  It turned out to be a polyp on my colon.  Giving blood identified it long before my doctor would have (it was benign).  So I guess I am going to live a long time.