Blood type became a sensitive issue in my family too, but my story is a little different. I always believed I was O+, because both my mother and father were O+. But after I became pregnant with my first child, the doctor told me I was B+! This was impossible, so I got retyped -- it came back B+ again. After being O+ for all my life, it was a shock to discover I was B+.
I began to wonder... was I adopted or switch at birth??
I asked my parents if they were sure they were O+. Dad insisted he was O+, because he had been told in the military and when he donated blood in the past. Mom insisted she was O+, because she had been told when she had a baby.
I called up my sister to discuss. She decided to get typed, and sure enough she also came back B+! By this time, we decided that either mom or dad were not telling us something or one of them was wrong. To end all the speculation, mom got retyped. And because she could not believe the result, she got retyped again. She was B+!
My mom says she cannot believe that her doctor told her the wrong blood type all those years ago. We all laugh about the mixed-up blood type now. So if the blood types in your family do not make sense, please get retyped! Better safe than sorry.
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Originally Posted by christiangirl
My blood type has always been a "sensitive issue" in my family. 
Both my parents are A+ (and so is my sister) so when I was born, they just told the doctors I should be A+ because they both are AND THE IDIOTS PUT THAT IN MY MEDICAL CHARTS WITHOUT CHECKING. So I lived my whole life with that in my records and all the times I had blood drawn, no one thought to check or change it. When I gave blood at 18, I found out I was O+.  It totally freaked me out--I thought I had been adopted or switched at birth or something. I didn't think it was possible to be a different blood type than both your parents but my mom researched it and told me to get a grip, it can happen.  |