My Experience Donating Convalescent Plasma for COVID-19 Patients

From patient to donor in six months

Meghan Olson

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The platelets and plasma I donated on October 10th, 2020.

I thought my headache was from the jetlag. Just 24 hours earlier I had returned to the US from Sweden where I was studying abroad.

The first symptom I experienced was a headache, unlike anything I had ever experienced. Then the body aches that kept me in bed for days…

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Meghan Olson

I’m a passionate writer, LGBTQ+ and mental health advocate, and bookworm.