What are you going to eat before you give the blood? Does it require that you fast before the draw…such as a fasting blood test?
Did you do any research into nutrition specifically for blood transplants? Is your brother allergic to seafood and shellfish or peanuts? Will you be eating crab cakes cooked with peanut oil before the blood draw if knowingly so?
Have you considered just eating nothing but beef and pork and chicken marrow starting now?
Edit left out lamb. Goat and turkey and duck too. What do you find at the grocers?
Also think of corona virus, which seems to get worse when jumping genes from animals to people and people to animals and back and forth. I think that is what it is doing for its survival. Protecting species from food consumption and staying deadly and preventing immunites from proliferating.
I used to work with a guy that donated for a patient with cancer. It was a bone marrow donation but they just collected blood. It was a good amount. I don’t think he had any dietary restrictions but he was getting drawn once a week after an injection of the same stuff lance Armstrong used to cheat with. He couldn’t drink booze for a while. I guess they didn’t want to freeze blood with alcohol in it and give it to a cancer patient.
Same with my situation. They hook up an IV in each arm. The blood goes out and they filter out the stem cells then back into the other arm. For five hours. Every day for four days before I get an injection that gets the stem cell production up. Can’t move the outgoing arm for 5 hours. Will be a long day.
I just calculated that I am eating on about $6 USD per day. That includes my lunch/dinner (I cook enough for both meals), jello for dessert, diet coke all day long, and granola at night.
That looks terrific. I could probably eat that diet. My diet is very inexpensive. I’m going to Costco tomorrow. I just found out because I work in healthcare I can go during senior hours.