MsGhettoBooty
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Hey everyone,
so earlier this morning I had a scheduled blood donation at my downtown facility. While I was laying there waiting for the girl to 'stick me,' my mind thought back to when I donated my first pint of blood. It was September 11th, 2001: I woke up to my 3 year old nephew grabbing my foot, "Aunty...Aunty the plane crash into the building. TV! TV!" Suddenly my phone rang. It was my boss (was working a federal job at the time). "Sheryl, due to the situation at hand, all federal employees will be off." "Ummm okay... thanks." At this time, I still had no idea what was going on. I walked into a busy living room (usually my sisters and parents are running out the door going to work and school) and there on the TV, I watched the haunting images of the World Trade Center being attacked.
That same day, our local news reported how the people of Hawaii could help. The blood banks of New York were low before the attack. As a result, they asked all of those who were interested in donating blood to go to your local blood donation facility now (they wanted to overnight blood donations). It was a nationwide blood donation. My sister (Randi- car-less at the time) begged, "Sheryl, can you take me please!"
We rushed to the nearest facility. Holy crap! It seemed all of Kalihi was there. The line went around the building, through the parking lot, and around the corner down the street. No kidding... they must have had 500 people just standing there and waiting @ 9am. We decided to have a seat on the sidewalk and wait. I knew the wait was going to be long, but it was amazing to see all of these people pulling together to help those in need. (I love the people of Hawaii for that. We call it "showing one's aloha.")
5 hours later, there we were, sitting in the "snack area" with our matching neon pink arm wraps while sipping apple juice and eating homemade chocolate chip cookies. My sister said the cutest thing as we were walking out, "I bet you a lot of sisters can't say that their older sister was willing to stand 5 hours in line to get jabbed by a nurse. It sucks that it took something like this for us to donate blood. But for what it's worth, you're the coolest sister ever."
Sorry for the long winded story, but with the holidays coming around, it makes me think a lot about family/ friends and helping those in need.
For all those interested in donating blood, you can either call 1-800-GIVE-LIFE or check out www.givelife.org Happy Holidays, everyone. (I really hope this isn't considered spam)
-Sheryl
so earlier this morning I had a scheduled blood donation at my downtown facility. While I was laying there waiting for the girl to 'stick me,' my mind thought back to when I donated my first pint of blood. It was September 11th, 2001: I woke up to my 3 year old nephew grabbing my foot, "Aunty...Aunty the plane crash into the building. TV! TV!" Suddenly my phone rang. It was my boss (was working a federal job at the time). "Sheryl, due to the situation at hand, all federal employees will be off." "Ummm okay... thanks." At this time, I still had no idea what was going on. I walked into a busy living room (usually my sisters and parents are running out the door going to work and school) and there on the TV, I watched the haunting images of the World Trade Center being attacked.
That same day, our local news reported how the people of Hawaii could help. The blood banks of New York were low before the attack. As a result, they asked all of those who were interested in donating blood to go to your local blood donation facility now (they wanted to overnight blood donations). It was a nationwide blood donation. My sister (Randi- car-less at the time) begged, "Sheryl, can you take me please!"
We rushed to the nearest facility. Holy crap! It seemed all of Kalihi was there. The line went around the building, through the parking lot, and around the corner down the street. No kidding... they must have had 500 people just standing there and waiting @ 9am. We decided to have a seat on the sidewalk and wait. I knew the wait was going to be long, but it was amazing to see all of these people pulling together to help those in need. (I love the people of Hawaii for that. We call it "showing one's aloha.")
5 hours later, there we were, sitting in the "snack area" with our matching neon pink arm wraps while sipping apple juice and eating homemade chocolate chip cookies. My sister said the cutest thing as we were walking out, "I bet you a lot of sisters can't say that their older sister was willing to stand 5 hours in line to get jabbed by a nurse. It sucks that it took something like this for us to donate blood. But for what it's worth, you're the coolest sister ever."
Sorry for the long winded story, but with the holidays coming around, it makes me think a lot about family/ friends and helping those in need.
For all those interested in donating blood, you can either call 1-800-GIVE-LIFE or check out www.givelife.org Happy Holidays, everyone. (I really hope this isn't considered spam)-Sheryl
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