So for a long time I've been thinking about donating blood. Both of our girls (Sierra, 6 year old Lab and Ellie, 2 year old Golden) donate blood once every 3 months so I figured I should do the same (if you have dogs between 1-7 years old and 60 lbs you should STRONGLY consider donation, it's fast and easy - and easy on your pets). I've donated once in the past (about 7 years ago) and it wasn't really that bad for me so I figured I should get in there.

So today I thought of it again, and before I could forget I called Bonfils to see about coming in to donate. I was a little surprised to find that they generally do donations by appointment but they were very happy to have me come in without one.

How was it? Well it was really easy, and, as you'd expect, the staff was exceptionally polite. They must have thanked me at least 10 times for coming in to donate. They definitely made me feel like I was doing a good thing. Honestly the hardest part (to me anyway) was the finger prick to test for red blood cell count (mine was just fine). Donating was just fine, I didn't get light headed or anything - for some reason even though I hate needles (hell who doesn't?) I never felt bad at all. Granted I never looked at my arm, but hey, why chance it right?

So in short DONATE BLOOD! One of the nurses said that a study was done on why people don't donate and by far the #1 answer was because no one asked them too. WELL I'M ASKING YOU TOO! Write yourself a note, AND GO DONATE! You'll be fine, you'll feel good about yourself, and you even get free orange juice and a cookie! Yum!

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