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Surgery and Recovery. If you are approved for the donation after all of the tests are completed, the surgery will be scheduled. The surgery is usually scheduled four to six weeks in advance. Typically, a living kidney transplant donor spends two days in the hospital, and will have an additional four to six weeks of recovery time. Donors who are from out of town should plan on spending an extra week in town after they discharged from the hospital. During recovery, you will experience some pain and discomfort.
When donating platelets, the whole process takes approximately two hours. The blood donation itself usually takes 5-10 minutes for whole blood, 25 minutes for double red cell donation and 60-90 minutes for platelet donation.hey can take two weeks or longer to fully return to normal. You can donate platelets (apheresis donation) every two weeks â up to 24 times in 12 months. Platelet and plasma components are regenerated in the body more quickly than red cells. Platelets will return to normal levels within 24-48 hours of donating.