Endorsements

This week is dedicated to my new endorsement! Giving blood, it is equivalent to giving life. (and you get a free t shirt!)

My roommate, Kellye, and I like to watch Extreme Makeover: Home Edition (a show specially designed to make you cry and bring to the surface all your hidden emotions). Well last week it was about a girl that had a red blood cell disease called Diamond Blackfan Anemia. This disorder left Lizze Bell with an extremely low red blood cell count and finds her life only through those that provide transfusions.

*side note, Google Lizzie Bell. It's amazing!*

Well after we blubbered over the beautiful house that Ty and his team built for their family, I decided I wanted to give blood. I had wanted to give blood for a while, but never got up the courage. My mom used to be an avid donor, but got black-listed because of Hep C (which she never had anyways) so I feel it is a sort of duty I owe to her to donate.

Well what do you know I saw Monday morning sitting right in front of the library? I Life South truck. After a few days of feeling guilty every time I walked past it Kellye and I decided to go. Until she psyched my out by talking about the size of the needle and the amounts of pain involved. Needless to say, we didn't go.

Well shoutout number two to my Life Group. Every week we write our names on cards and draw them out randomly so we get together with someone and get to know them one on one (fantastic idea, by the way). Well this week I was to meet with Sarah. We were going to meet Tuesday, but I had to postpone due to a History midterm Wednesday morning. And it turned out even better!

After passing the truck for about the tenth time this week, I decided I wanted to go. For real this time. So I texted Sarah and asked her if she was afraid of needles. She isn't! She's a nursing major, too! So Sarah agreed to go with me and not only did we give life but we started to build the foundation of a beautiful friendship, I'm sure.

Not only is this another lesson on the importance and blessings of community, but it is to encourage you to give blood. Even better, I found out I'm type O, so depending on whether I'm + or -, I could potentially be the universal donor. What more encouragement do you need??

I know, I know. You're afraid of needles, aren't you? Suck it up and be a big girl/boy. People go through a lot more pain than a little needle stick just to get through the day.

"what we have done for ourselves dies alone with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal." ~Albert Pike