My room mate just left to go to St. Jude to give platelets. The difference in that an just giving regular blood is that first they take the blood out then filter and then put back the rest of the blood in your body. April, my room mate, said that the only bad thing about it is that it is cold when the blood goes back in the body! She is an Up Till Dawn morale captain so she is required to give platelets. Giving platelets is a lot different that just giving blood. When you give blood it only takes about 5 or 10 minutes at the most. When you give platelets it takes so long that you can start watching another movie after finishing ONE! Giving blood is really needed in our country because only 60% of the blood is actually able to be used on patients. The thing we don’t realize is how much platelets is needed as well because no one wants to sit an extra hour to give blood. I know I would not. I would feel as if I had helped enough by giving blood why should I sit around for another hour or so. I actually think that some blood banks pay you to give platelets. I know that is an incentive for me to give!
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Giving Blood is really important, especially when it’s going to St. Jude because they do so much for children. I tried to give blood once but the blood drive was so unorganized I ended up having to leave because it took them thirty minutes just to sign me in. Perhaps a blood bank is more organized, and I can donate blood there.
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