Thursday, March 09, 2006

Waiting on pins and needles

So I've decided that someone needs to try to figure out which blood donation centres give the best first-time-donation swag. I gave blood today at the Sloan-Kettering Memorial Cancer Hospital, which is just across the street from Lourenzo's school, and their first-time gift is a nice tote bag.

Canadian Blood Services gives a pin; New York Blood Services gives nothing.

I should totally go around donating everywhere I can find, and see where I can get the best gifts. Besides, of course, the free Oreos and orange juice. Because, really, why else would you want to give blood? It's all about the cookies...

On a slightly more socially responisible vein, I'm going to try to get into the habit of going in once or twice a week to donate platelets. It's so close to the school, and I can go in on a morning when I've got some time to kill, especially if I don't have to go into the office right away. And since you can give platelets every three days, but you have to wait 56 to give blood again, that seems like the way to go that will be the most help to the most people.


posted by Alida at 6:56 PM
3 comments

3 Comments:
Blogger Laurel said...

Hahah. A more socially responsible 'vein' eh? Hahaha.

Nice

11:35 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I second the HA HA from Laurel
that is awesome!

Love Ya
Kat

10:40 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I tried to send this the other day, but it is not here, so I guess it didn't go for some reason. I just commented that the Canadian Blood services radio ad actually says, "We've got cookies."

The other comment I made was that the socially reponsible vein went right over my head!

Mom

7:32 PM  

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