An Optimistic entry
Feb. 10th, 2006 12:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rowanberriesFirst of all: If there is someone on your friends list who makes your world a better place just because they exist and who you would not have met (in real life or not) without the internet, then post this same sentence in your journal.
Because why else would I keep you all around?
Second - people who give blood? All of you rule a lot. I do whenever I can, even though I have what I believe is the commonest blood type possible. I've been going on for a while now about my friend who was in a traffic accident (she's getting better all the time - still in the ITC, but I talked to her and she talked back and she's still herself and okay) and I found out a while ago how she survived. See, she has a rare blood type even in England, and she was in Africa at the time. Practically nobody has that type in Ghana. It's a race thing. It's just... not there. So when she needed blood? All the volunteers from other countries - Spain, Greece, England, France, all over the place went around finding out who among them had a matching type, and if they did, they donated. Not a little bit at a time, like most donors do, they kept doing it until she was back at a safe level and could be flown back over.
That is just... Such an amazing thing, because without it, we now know she would be dead. But she's not, and she's going to be okay.
And the weather today is great.
XD
Because why else would I keep you all around?
Second - people who give blood? All of you rule a lot. I do whenever I can, even though I have what I believe is the commonest blood type possible. I've been going on for a while now about my friend who was in a traffic accident (she's getting better all the time - still in the ITC, but I talked to her and she talked back and she's still herself and okay) and I found out a while ago how she survived. See, she has a rare blood type even in England, and she was in Africa at the time. Practically nobody has that type in Ghana. It's a race thing. It's just... not there. So when she needed blood? All the volunteers from other countries - Spain, Greece, England, France, all over the place went around finding out who among them had a matching type, and if they did, they donated. Not a little bit at a time, like most donors do, they kept doing it until she was back at a safe level and could be flown back over.
That is just... Such an amazing thing, because without it, we now know she would be dead. But she's not, and she's going to be okay.
And the weather today is great.
XD
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Date: 2006-02-10 05:00 am (UTC)So I decided I should go and give blood...except I'm not allowed. So I hope everyone else knows that you get used to it and it barely even hurts then. YOU SHOULD ALL DO IT!
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Date: 2006-02-10 05:05 am (UTC)Seriously, you're more in danger of growing bored while waiting if you forget to book beforehand.
And free tea and biscuits, people! It's like a little tea party for HEROES.
Because you get to feel all brave and special afterwards.
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Date: 2006-02-10 05:06 am (UTC)*mutters* Stupid Ireland.
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Date: 2006-02-10 05:14 am (UTC)