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.
If you're a smoker, you might worry about whether you can smoke before or after donating blood. Major blood banks like the American Red Cross don't have restrictions on smoking prior to giving blood, but they do have some recommendations regarding smoking after donating blood.moking. The American Red Cross and other major blood-bank institutions generally don't prohibit you from smoking cigarettes before donating blood. But some blood banks advise that you not smoke immediately after giving blood.