Tag: blood
Boosting Your Iron With Breakfast
Have you ever gone to give blood and been turned away because your iron’s a little low? It happens to the best of us, including many right here in our […]
How Are You Spending Your Day On?
We’ve all heard that MLK Day is should be a day on, not a day off. So how are you spending yours? Granted, it’s not actually ON MLK Day, but […]
Martin Luther King, Jr. Blood and Organ Registry Drive
Reverend Dr. T. Allen Bethel is a grateful kidney transplant recipient who’s happy to be free from the confinement that kidney disease and dialysis. Dr Bethel, Senior Pastor at Maranatha […]
Excitement in the Air
Whirly Bird Action Yesterday was an exciting day for Red Cross Blood Services. Leave it to Eileen Cahill and Neil Heiniman of Hospital Services to negotiate a Coast Guard Chopper […]
What’s Your New Year’s Resolution?
We’ve heard most New Year’s resolutions before — lose weight, exercise more, travel, spend time with family and friends — but one local family has made the same resolution for […]
Oh, so you’re wondering how the Emergency Blood Drive Tweet-up went?
Well, let me tell you. (Photo set here.) After we put the call out on twitter the word spread like wildfire. It was short notice, and many people were out […]
A Small Dose Of Reality
I’ve admitted before that, every once in a while, I succumb to the mind-numbing shallowness that is reality TV. I try my very hardest to keep it to the shows […]
We’re Having A Tweet-Up!
What with all the snow and the holidays, we’ve seen a serious drop in blood donations this week. So we decided – at the suggestion of one of our twitter […]
Tweeting Up At A Blood Drive
If you saw my last post, you know that we’re already planning for a future blood drive “tweet-up.” While I’m sad to say that we won’t be the first to […]
Narrow window to boost blood and platelet collection
American Red Cross has a small window of opportunity to bolster the blood and platelet supply. While some roads remain manageable, Red Cross is asking donors to give blood while […]