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Whatever You Do, Don't Bleed
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Southland hospitals are running a few quarts low on blood these days. An adequate supply is considered five to seven days worth. Right now they've got eight hours of type 0-positive, 19 hours of type B-negative and about a day's worth of everything else.
Not to overstate the obvious, but this is bad.
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The bulk of the problem appears to be that people either aren't donating (pussies!), or aren't available to donate. People are away on summer trips. About 20% of the blood supply comes from college students, who are away for the summer. This fact actually scares me more than anything else. I remember the things I got up to in college.
Blood doesn't come from the Blood Store (though that would be kind of cool, wouldn't it?). It comes from those of us willing to bleed for everyone else.
So, if you can give blood, then by all means do so. Type O-negative is in disturbingly short supply. Only 57 units available in Southern California. Period. You get one guy in from a bad car accident and that shit goes away fast.
If you're a pussy who's afraid of needles, let me try to put this into perspective for you. If you're the guy in the car accident and there isn't enough blood to go around YOU WILL DIE. Or maybe it will be your wife, or your brother. Or your children.
Half an hour of your time, a little pinprick and a cookie can save a couple of lives.
Go to the Red Cross's blood donation site, GiveLife.org and find a donation site. There are blood drives going on almost every day.
If you think you might not be eligible to give blood, and many people aren't, unfortunately, check out their eligibility guidelines.
But if you are eligible, please, go give a pint of blood. At the very least it'll help you get drunk faster.
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| Posted by: S_Blackmoore on Tuesday, July 11, 2006 - 10:17 AM
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