I Want to Suck Your Blood (Halloween edition)

Here's some info about donating blood and platelets for Rosina and City of Hope.

1) City of Hope uses 30,000 units of blood a year and only 58% of that is actually donated at City of Hope. The rest is purchased or comes from the Red Cross. So they always need blood donors of all types.

2) Because of the blood type of Rosina's marrow donor, her blood type is changing from A+ to O+. This means that a "directed donor" for her should be O+. If you would like to donate blood for her, you need to be on her directed donor list, which contains your name, phone, and blood type. Being on the list doesn't mean you have to donate, though. You would also need to do the donation at City of Hope itself. (See link on right for directions and map). Whole blood is good for 35 days. If you want to be on the list, you can email either one of us, or if you don't have those addresses, my email for this blog is whatsupblood@gmail.com.

3) Donating platelets is not related to blood types and any type is a match. If you want to donate platelets for Rosina, know that the shelf life of platelets is only five days, two after they do the tests, so getting the timing right is difficult. Know that you would be helping the cause in general just as someone else is for Rosina. Also, donating platelets can take two hours.

There is a link up on the right side of the page for giving blood at City of Hope as well as the directions. City of Hope is east of Pasadena in Duarte. It's about 40 minutes from our house Hollywood.

The phone number for the Donor center is (626) 471-7171
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This thing is used to warm up the blood before it goes in your body. The tube the blood travels through is wrapped around the outside. I believe it's Hammacher Schlemmer's "World's Best Blood Warmer"