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10-05-2015 07:24 PM
I have no amazing stories. Just getting through life is amazing enough for me.
10-05-2015 09:27 PM
Every month I drive 115 miles round trip, at my expense, to the closest donor center in this region, to donate platelets to the American Red Cross. I have donated 18x, which is a total of 36 units of processed platelets, that have been sent to various hospitals in WV, VA, and PA. What I'm doing is not amazing, but I have surprised myself with my firm commitment to do this for as long as I am healthy enough to do so. My next donation is Wednesday, and I always say a prayer for the patients who receive my platelets. Newborn babies, patients with cancer, as well as trauma and transplant patients need platelet transfusions. Sometimes patients have to wait days or even weeks for a platelet transfusion, due to the Red Cross not having this blood product readily available. I retired early due to my husbands poor health, and several days every month are devoted to his medical appts. However, I find one open day a month on our calendar to make this trip, in an effort to do what I can to help others.
10-05-2015 09:57 PM
10-05-2015 11:02 PM
10-05-2015 11:14 PM
@RedTop wrote:Every month I drive 115 miles round trip, at my expense, to the closest donor center in this region, to donate platelets to the American Red Cross. I have donated 18x, which is a total of 36 units of processed platelets, that have been sent to various hospitals in WV, VA, and PA. What I'm doing is not amazing, but I have surprised myself with my firm commitment to do this for as long as I am healthy enough to do so. My next donation is Wednesday, and I always say a prayer for the patients who receive my platelets. Newborn babies, patients with cancer, as well as trauma and transplant patients need platelet transfusions. Sometimes patients have to wait days or even weeks for a platelet transfusion, due to the Red Cross not having this blood product readily available. I retired early due to my husbands poor health, and several days every month are devoted to his medical appts. However, I find one open day a month on our calendar to make this trip, in an effort to do what I can to help others.
@RedTop Thank you so much. My husband received platelets twice when he had MDS. He also had 140 blood transfusions. Thank you donors!
10-05-2015 11:14 PM
10-06-2015 06:09 AM
I don't know if this really qualifies, but for me, it was pretty amazing and something I consider one of my life's special and memorable moment.
When our children were young, we'd have family reading time after dinner. We'd gather in the living room and I'd read aloud. One book we read was Jacob's Rescue. A brief synopsis is that this book is set in Warsaw, Poland during WWII. The father of young Jacob Gutgeld and his brothers knew they weren't safe because they were Jewish. He asked a Gentile co-worker, Alex Roslan, to take them and protect them during the German occupation of Poland. Alex and his wife, Mela, did just that, adding the three boys to their family, even though that put them all at risk. As the story unfolded, we read what life with The Roslans was like, how they endured during their time in hiding, how two of the boys got sick and needed to be smuggled into a hospital by hiding in a sofa, etc. One brother didn't survive, but after the war, Jacob and David were reunited with their father, who made it to Palestine.
In January, 1995, I was watching Good Morning America and they did a story on it being the 50th anniversary since the liberation of Auschwitz. I was immediately reminded of that book we had read just a year or so prior. From the book, I knew that Alex & Mela Roslan had eventually moved to Ft. Lauderdale, FL. I don't know what it was, but somehow I was prompted that morning to call directory assistance and try to find a phone number for them. After a couple of deep breaths and working up the nerve to call, I dialed the number. By that time, they would have been on in years so I wasn't even sure if they were still alive or not. A woman answered, whom I believed was Mela. I asked if I could speak with Alex. He came to the phone. It was really him and even though I probably stumbled over my words, I had the privilege of being able to thank him for rescuing those little boys so many years prior. We talked only for a few brief minutes, but he did tell me that both Jacob and David grew to be very accomplished men, one a physicist and the other a mathematician, if I remember correctly. Alex and Mela are recognized as rescuers at the National Holocaust Museum and were declared Righteous among the Nations by Yad Vashem.
And, that's my story.
10-06-2015 06:10 AM
Oh, sheesh. I have nothing amazing to write. But, I just had to write any way and say how much I admire all of you here.
10-06-2015 07:28 AM
You guys are really great.
10-06-2015 07:47 AM - edited 10-06-2015 07:55 AM
I am naturally a scairdy-cat. But I got a job offer I really wanted to take when I was 37 and it was going to require that I drive every day.
So I confronted a driving phobia I'd acquired after a fender-bender when I was 17 and re-learned how to drive. To this day, given how scared-stiff I was every time I got behind the wheel, for at least a year or two, it amazes me that I stuck with it.
These challenges are gifts sometimes: driving in so many parts of the country is freedom.
I beat my terror of flying, too--by flyiing every chance I could for a while. Everyone is different, but I've found that when I confront my fears. they lose some of their power--not all at once, but they do wear out, bit by bit.
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