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Donating Blood

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K

Blood for transfusions is running especially short just now
and my local blood bank is on me to donate. (But I just
donated in late May, so won't be eligible to give again until
late July.) If you, like me, are type O-negative, the universal
donor, and have not donated blood in a while, please think
about donating soon. You can learn the current basic
requirements for donating almost anywhere by going to:

http://www.BloodCenters.org

and if you happen to be on the western side of northern
California you can even set up a donation appointment
right on the spot.
PS--Donations by other blood types are welcome too.

K

It's October 2014 and type O-negative blood for transfusions is
desperately short in the San Francisco Bay Area, according to
Blood Centers of the Pacific, If you are O-negative, or know
someone who is, an immediate donation would be a very,
very charitable act.

See the previous post for the basics of how to donate.

I gave my latest pint of O-negatve blood last Monday.

. . . . . . . . . . . . kraken

Good idea and thank you for suggesting it. I've donated for years. I'm O-positive, not quite the universal donor but my blood is good enough for transplant patients and babies in ICU. It's important to donate. Thank you again, Wendy

K

Thanks for the boosterism, Wendy. Donating blood
is every bit as important as you and I think.

By the way, I still love your story about volunteering
(via the Red Cross) to collect blood blood samples
from pregnant women at an Army Post, and putting
quite a bit of that blood on the ceiling.

. . . . . . . . . . . . kraken

Yes but it only took once to learn the difference between a vein and an artery. You have a good memory. I wiped it out with peroxide. Wendy

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