{"id":221,"date":"2008-06-18T08:23:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-18T15:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/?p=221"},"modified":"2008-06-18T08:24:26","modified_gmt":"2008-06-18T15:24:26","slug":"its-in-you-to-give","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/its-in-you-to-give\/","title":{"rendered":"It’s In You To Give!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>I don’t remember why I started giving blood.<\/p>\n

As I laid on the chair yesterday, I tried to remember when I first started giving blood and why.<\/p>\n

It was kind of a special day yesterday….see, it was my brother’s birthday. The same brother that almost died just over a year ago and has been able to use other people’s blood to help give him life. <\/p>\n

I joked with him that I was donating in his name (seeing as it was his birthday<\/em>), but unfortunately, I wasn’t giving forward, I was just paying back what he’d already used up.<\/p>\n

I really can’t rememeber when I made the decision to start giving blood, and I wish I could. What was my motivation? If I look on my card, the first recorded time on this card was May 2004 and that was the last time before I had all my losses that I gave blood, and it says on the top of the card that I gave 3 times before that, so I’m guessing that it was sometime in the fall\/winter of 2003. <\/p>\n

What happened then? Did I just want to give back? Did it have something to do with 9 11? Although, that was a pretty slow response on my part if it was? Ahhhhh, I just googled “Wars in 2003” and that’s when the war in Iraq was happenning….I wonder if that was part of my reasoning…Hmmmm.<\/p>\n

Regardless of my reasoning, I’m happy that I can do this….happy that I have done this, and happy enough to continue to do it…<\/p>\n

It takes less that an hour, once every 56 days – no side effects, aside from a bit of a sore arm (for me), AND….you get free juice and cookies. What could be better than that.<\/p>\n

If you’ve ever thought about giving blood and you just haven’t, may I encourage you to give it a shot….ha ha ha…give it a shot….but seriously, grab a friend or even just venture out yourself, and donate.<\/p>\n

If you’re in Canada, you can check out the Canadian Blood Services website at www.bloodservices.ca<\/a> to find answers to any questions that you might have or call 1-888-2 donate.<\/p>\n

It is a way to give back or to give forward or just to give.<\/p>\n

But it’s something so simple and easy and requires so little effort….mostly just time – and a little blood<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Now, I now that not everyone can give blood and I’m not meaing, IN ANY WAY, to make anyone uncomfortable or guilty – just to encourage you to think about giving. <\/p>\n

Do you give blood? Do you have a special reason as to when and why you started giving?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I don’t remember why I started giving blood. As I laid on the chair yesterday, I tried to remember when I first started giving blood and why. It was kind of a special day yesterday….see, it was my brother’s birthday. The same brother that almost died just over a year ago and has been able … Continue reading “It’s In You To Give!”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}