I try to make sure that I donate on a reguar basis. I get calls and reminders in the mail all the time. I am O-, so according to the previous posts, you can understand why they might be after me. I have donated blood since high school, and lately, my job has been conducting blood drives every 60 days or so. I wasn't able to give for a bit due to some major surgery I had done on two occasions in the last year and a half, but since the last hospital visit, I have already donated even though it was just this past May that I had the surgery again. I donated against the advice of everyone around me, of course. I had the Red Cross clear it so I could. Since we are sharing stories...surprisingly enough, the CEO of the company for which I work sent me an admirational email about how he was so inspired by my gesture. I just told him the truth; I felt compelled to donate since blood is so precious and necessary (especially O- from what they have been telling me all these years). You never know; you may be the one on the operating table one day in need of a few units of blood. So, that said, I will give blood until I no longer can.

Peace good people.