I received an email yesterday saying that I donated blood twice this year, and now qualify for a HerO prize through the Red Cross. If I donate one more time, the prize gets bigger. That's nice, but really I just do it for the free juice and Nutter Butter cookies. And the Pint for a Pint Baskin & Robbin coupons. Plus I have the universal blood - 0 Negative, so I have an important obligation to give what is so needed. And since I work in a hospital, it's right there and ready for me every 6 weeks.
I like talking to the guys who take my blood. They all have interesting stories to tell. The last guy was about 20 yrs old, he grew up in East LA, where over half his high school class didn't graduate. He told me about escaping the drug scene and wanting something for his life but how hard it was to even get a good book. Somehow he made it through and now has this great job helping people. He is the true herO.
It just goes to show, no matter what your circumstances, it's your character that truly matters.
Now just how is it possible that in this day & age, a school could get by with only 1/2 the students graduating. Is that even legal?
Does anyone have a HerO story to share?
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I'm an aspiring writer with a full time job as a psychotherapist and mother of two tow-head elementary school kids. Did I forget to mention I am also full time employed as Chief Cook and Laundry Engineer? Although these roles leave me scant moments to write, I steal them when I can in hopes that 20 years from now I will have an archive to draw from. However, I submit and submit just in case someone wants me sooner.
I work at an inpatient psychiatric facility which often serves as both inspiration and fortitude in my journey as a writer. I also have a private practice where I see less severely suicidal or psychotic patients - more towards the functionally neurotic group in which most of us fall. In either setting, I am never ceased to be amazed at the willingness to start fresh in the face of pain, the resilience of people and the place that we all come from - love.
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2 comments:
On behalf of any person whose life you may have saved, I thank you.
In 2003 I was so anemic my hematocrit level was 12. The doctors I saw were stunned I was alive. I was only given 2 units of red cells that time, but it kept me alive.
In September 2006, once again in an emergency room for my anemia and the symptoms causing it, I was admitted to the hospital with a hematocrit level of 17. Eight units of red cells later, I was in surgery having an emergency radical hysterectomy during which they found a tumor in my uterus of 8.5 cm.
I'd be dead if people hadn't donated their blood.
So thank you and bless you. I, for one, am very grateful and appreciate your contribution.
Wow! That must have been very scary times two! I am glad you made it through.
Like I said, I consider it my obligation. It is such an easy way to give, costs nothing but 20 minutes and makes a difference. If any of you haven't tried and qualify, try it, it's not hard at all.
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