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Deflated

March 19, 2008

I got punctured to donate my platelets, and I’m deflated about it at the moment. It didn’t go quite as I had planned. I might not be a very good donor, and I feel like a failure.
I was pretty scatterbrained as I headed out the door, and barely remembered to grab a book [...]

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There Will Be Blood

March 17, 2008

I’m trembling and trying to control my breathing as I prepare to go to Carter Blood Bank to donate platelets later today. My hope is that I will be a match as a bone marrow donor for a young man named Taten Court. He’s part Cree Indian, and finding a match for him [...]

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The Match Game. Bone Marrow Match, That Is

March 12, 2008

One of my most vivid memories of childhood is of me at six years old. I was running helter-skelter down the narrow hallway of our local clinic in my underwear, screaming, “bloody murder!” My Momma and Dr. Lancaster (with a syringe in his hand that looked five foot long) chased me. He [...]

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