Chip Carter Gaines. Construction/Real Estate Lead and Owner. Chip Gaines is co-owner and co-founder of Magnolia Homes, and co-stars in HGTVâs Fixer Upper with his wife Joanna.Chip was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico and raised in Dallas. He graduated from Baylor Universityâs Hankamer School of Business with a Marketing degree.
You must weigh at least 110 lbs to be eligible for blood donation for your own safety. Students who donate at high school drives and donors 18 years of age or younger must also meet additional height and weight requirements for whole blood donation (applies to girls shorter than 5'6 and boys shorter than 5'). Blood volume is determined by body weight and height.
Yes - senior citizens and the elderly can donate, but only up to the maximum age limit of 64. The lower age limit is not under 18 years old, making the age range for eligible donors 18-64 year old adults. Children and the elderly are barred from donating blood plasma because dangerous complications from dehydration and blood loss increase with very young, and very old age.