Top 10 Reasons To Give Blood
1. You will get free juice and cookies. mmmmm...nutterbutters....
2. You will weigh less - one pint less when you leave than when you came in.
3. It's easy and convenient - it only takes about an hour and you can make the donation at a donor center, or at one of the many Red Cross mobile blood drives.
4. It's something you can spare - most people have blood to spare... yet, there is still not enough to go around. even broke grad students can spare it!
5. Nobody can ask you to do any heavy lifting as long as you have the bandage on. You can wear it for as long as you like. It's your badge of honor. in other words, milk it!
6. You will walk a little taller afterwards - you will feel good about yourself. not to mention people will think you're a good person.
7. You will be helping to ensure that blood is there when you or someone close to you may need it. Most people don't think they'll ever need blood, but many do.
8. It's something you can do on equal footing with the rich and famous - blood is something money can't buy. Only something one person can give to another. take that rich and famous!
9. You will be someone's hero - you may give a newborn, a child, a mother or a father, a brother, or a sister another chance at life. In fact, you may help save up to three lives with just one donation. i'm a type-o hero! my donor card says so!
10. It's the right thing to do. that's right, all you no-blood-giving heathens.
okay, you're not really heathens. well, you might be, but not for witholding your blood. do try to give blood soon if you can, though, since there is a shortage due to all the cold weather up north. apparently northerners give a lot of blood, and southerners need a lot of it.
and so you can be as good a person as me. and as important as bill gates. take that rich and famous!
(sorry, i've been really enjoying #8...)
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I, alas, cannot on this day. Friday will see me at the donor center, for today is Karate, and I shall need that pint in order to survive.
Nonetheless! I applaud you! You and all of the non-rich-and-famous that donate their blood to unknown recipients! You type-O-hero, you!
REASON #11] you can find out what blood type you are.
REASON #12] you get a free STD test!
so, the cold weather kept the yanks from giving as much as usual, or they kept sliding into ditches, & used more than their usual quota?
just one more:
isn't it possible that the supply is low b/c tomorrow's Fat Tuesday, & St. Paddy's Day is just @ the corner?
the yankees purportedly know how to drive in that kinda weather better than we do down here...but i've only ever heard a yankee say that so i'm not sure it's true...
about fat tuesday, if that is the case than the Red Cross has great foresight to call me two weeks ago. maybe they're expecting a lotta wrecks....
Yay! Someone else has become a blood-donation junkie! I've developed this weird fascination with giving blood. When I get back to the States, I'm going to sign up on the bone marrow donation list so maybe I can give marrow, too. There's something about giving blood that makes you feel really cool.
I'm type A, by the way. :D
yeah! they're currently testing my blood to see if i can donate platelets, too. i'd be very happy about that, then i could be a double hero!
jenna, you're getting ripped off down there!!! up here in the north, they also give you a really cool army green t-short with a red cross on the front. (ha! ha!)
and here is reason #13 - it gives you a really good excuse for leaving work early on a friday :-)
here they sometimes give away shirts--but they're in no way cool or even remotely close to a size that i could wear.
but one other thing i do usually get, which wasn't mentioned here, is a coupon for a free chick-fil-a sandwich!
i got free tickets to an atlanta thrashers game (and a bunch of t-shirts that i've never worn and a bunch of cfa coupons i forgot to redeem). i'm also type-O positive.
#14) if you give platelets, they let you choose and watch a dvd while doing so.
(that deleted post was mine - had a spelling error... an obvious and immediate deletion on the eJnan's grammatically perfect blog!)
de-NIED!
I came,
I saw,
I left without cookies.
They didn't want my iron-depleted A- blood this Friday. But I will take heart (ya like that?) and try again...after NYC!
i'm down with NYC, yeah you know me.
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