[Sca-cooks] Re: Blood donors

[Susan Fox-Davis]

My lord husband and I got in the habit of donating blood to Cedars-Sinai 
Medical Center in Los Angeles when my mother went in for lung cancer 
surgery.  [She's fine, good lord willing she'll outlive us all.]  After 
all, we knew where our own personal blood had been! We kept going back 
whenever the blood center phoned.  Cushy couches, real juice and 
cookies, cable TV, just like an evening at home except for this little 
needle thing.  They give movie tickets too, double for pheresis.  

I like to encourage "anachronists" to donate by citing the ancient 
practice of sacrifice, the shedding of blood so that the community might 
live.  In these modern times, one can reasonable expect to survive and 
repeat the experience!  Some Star Trek clubs have "Klingon Blood Feuds" 
where the club that donates the most blood wins bragging rights.

Selene Colfox
selene at earthlink.net

Kirsten Houseknecht wrote:

>for *scheduled* surgery there are many other products, including recycling
>your own blood... because scheduled surgeries rarely involve loss of much
>blood anymore
>(fortunately)
>BUT
>accident victims, people who bleed out, people with platelet problems, and
>other issues, often have no choice, its blood.. NOW or be dead.
>  
>