Posted on 07/14/2004 4:06:11 PM PDT by SanityFromTheLeftCoast
Due to many recent and upcoming pediatric surgeries, like Lexie's, we are critically low in your blood type, type-O. Combined with historically slow summer months, we need donors like you to help us meet patient needs. Call 888-723-7831 or visit our web site at http://bloodcenter.stanford.edu to request an appointment.
Thank you for your continued support! Blood donors save lives!
At only 5-months-old, Lexie needed six units of blood during a nine-hour liver transplant operation that saved her life. Doctors at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital expect Lexie to grow up healthy and happy thanks, in part, to the blood donors that saved her life.
http://bloodcenter.stanford.edu/news/inventory.html
I donate 4 times a year. Have been doing this since 1985 or so. Everyone who can should.
I bet it's hard to find blood donors in San Francisco that the blood banks won't turn away. I am just a couple of donations short of four gallons at my local blood bank.
You can say that again. At the rate urban areas...specifically San Francisco, are bing infected I think soon we'll see "major urban areas" added to after "West African Countries".
I live in the Bay Area, have type O blood, and donated about a month ago. Can't give again for another month.
Shudder....
My Type-O blood and my tax dollars pulled up stakes in California and left for New Hampshire.
Yep - I cannot donate. Military service in a hellhole.
If you actually read the information on the website, you would not be talking out the side of your mouth, how can you possibly obfuscate a call-to-action that impacts peoples lives:
I lost my mother, sister, grandmother, and grandfather to various cancers. Each of them required significant levels of donor blood in order to give them a fighting chance.
Your attitude disgusts me!
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Lucile Packard Children's Hospital had two pediatric cardiac surgeries everyday both last week and this week.
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At only 5-months-old, Lexie needed six units of blood during a nine-hour liver transplant operation that saved her life.
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Heavy hospital usage is predicted to continue indefinitely!
In the past:
Ron needed hundreds of units of blood to stay alive during his successful battle with leukemia at Stanford Hospital.
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Known simply as Lali by her nurses, the 3-year-old leukemia patient required numerous units of blood during her chemotherapy treatments at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital.
I nominate you for the most optimistic FR handle..
The ME was not mentioned last time I visited the Blood Bank. Just the usual African countries and England. Call them up.
In case any Freepers in the Bay Area would like to donate blood.
Hey Sanity....lighten up....I don't think he was talking about the people who willingly give blood, who have CLEAN blood, he was talking about the impact AIDS and other diseases has in a city like SF......and THAT could be a PROBLEM for those in NEED.
I would not argue (since I would lose) that parts of California are great, but overall, that state's tightening of the noose on its citizens' liberties is getting the response it deserves.
I did my best to beat back the rising tide of gun-owner harassment laws and taxes, but after five years, I got tired and decided to move to a state that recognized my right to self-defense and didn't confiscate 9.3% of my income.
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In Memphis (and I assume, all over the US,) donations are discarded from any male who admits sexual contact with another male, even one time, EVER! That must reduce the donor pool significantly in San Francisco.
I had to quit for several years due to unstable blood pressure, but started again last year after I finally got it under control. But now my blood sugar is bouncing around like my BP used to, and I don't know what effect that will have.
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