Posted by
MarkJ on Wednesday, October 03, 2007 10:50:55 PM
Today I donated my 76th pint of blood. It's been quite a few years getting there, and in less than eight months I'll be able to get a ten gallon pin from the Red Cross.
While I was lying in the chair squeezing my O+ blood into the plastic bag, I looked around and noticed a nice cross section of Americans doing the same thing or preparing to do the same thing, or just finished doing the same thing. There was the girl with hot pink streaks in her bleached blond hair. There were the two 20-something men with saggy pants. There was the 60-something lady, the middle-aged man (me), the 30-something man, etc. It was nice to see so many different people with one goal in mind--helping someone else who might need that blood.
I'll be back in late November for pint #77.