I don’t mean to brag but let me remind you (lest you forget) that I am the man of men and a bona-fide A+ guy. Hey, who can deny it because it is the gospel truth!!! And that ain’t whistlin’ Dixie because even the Red Cross recognizes my studliness and it says so right here on my membership card–> A Positive! Ohhhh….whoops! It appears that that’s just my blood type designation which happens to be A+. Derp!!!
Hey…. I’m a struggling artist who can’t even get a Friday night date. And the only kisses I ever get are the ones from my dog. So can you blame me for hamming it up? Male egos are indeed very fragile things and mine’s such a milquetoast mess that it’s practically a psychiatrist’s delight. Why, thanks to me, he can afford a yacht on Smith Mountain Lake with what I’m paying him. I sure hope he lets me drive it someday. I have a majority stake in it after all.
But since we’re on the subject of Red Cross and blood let me brag about another passion of mine: donating blood! Why just yesterday I donated a couple pints of my very own blood plasma to the local plasma center who will process and ship it off to one of our local hospitals to help some poor soul. An unlucky fellow who I do not know, or will ever meet, and probably having a very bad day indeed. But whoever he or she may be they can take heart that my simple donation will help them back onto the road of recovery and to seeing better days. At least I dearly hope so.
It doesn’t get a lot of coverage but there’s an acute and crucial shortage of blood and blood products facing hospitals today. So much so that it’s nearing crisis levels and forcing medical personel to make difficult decisions in rationing blood and blood products amongst the most needy of the great many recipients deserving it. But it’s a crisis easily averted if only good souls take the time to come out and donate some blood or plasma on occasion.
So would you like to be an A+ kind of person? It’s quite easy really. Begin donating blood and you’ll be A+ to everyone who receives it.
