Giving Back ... Donating blood
On Friday October 4th an Integral Team donated blood. As you can tell from the happy faces above, it was a positive experience.
There is a great quote about blood donation in the Canadian Blood Services annual report – though from the perspective of the recipient – that so very aptly describes this act of charity and compassion as a literal and powerful way to give of yourself.
“I’ve lived a life where I wasn’t receiving donor blood, and I don't want to go back.
I don’t know of a more literal or more powerful way to give of yourself.”
Charles
Blood recipient
We are happy that we participated.
Checking in with Andrea, Zoli and John, pictured above, after the event, and here’s what they had to say:
Andrea (left .. ya, we know you'd have figured that out!)
“This is the first time in a long time that I’ve given blood … and it felt so good to do it! I’d had a long, bad week and giving blood just elevated me”.
Zoli (middle)
“In general, went well. I'm afraid of needles so it's always tense for me. At the clinic the people are very nice and professional. They try to accommodate with all the requests regarding the procedure – for example, using my right hand and ‘I don't want to look, just let me know when done’ ”.
John (right)
John also said he felt good about the experience and was pleased to spend the time with his work team outside of the office. Those of you who’ve had the pleasure of working with him, will appreciate his rather unique approach to participating in the blood drive.
“I turned to the person beside me and asked if he wanted to make it a competition around bleed time”. John went on to say (aka, brag) that his bleed time that day was his “personal best”.
Note to our readers: Bleed time is a statistic available to you when you give blood – along with things like hemoglobin level and blood type.
Without wanting to trounce on Johns personal best bleed time, Canadian Blood Services says “Your bleed time is the time it took for you to complete the blood donation. There is no better or worse number. The average is about 10 minutes. Bleeding time will all depend on hydration day to day, all individuals can be different”. (we are sure that in the back of their minds they, too, were thinking … yeah, John!)
'Good Job' to our Blood Donor team of Superheroes.
There is a great quote about blood donation in the Canadian Blood Services annual report – though from the perspective of the recipient – that so very aptly describes this act of charity and compassion as a literal and powerful way to give of yourself.
“I’ve lived a life where I wasn’t receiving donor blood, and I don't want to go back.
I don’t know of a more literal or more powerful way to give of yourself.”
Charles
Blood recipient
We are happy that we participated.
Checking in with Andrea, Zoli and John, pictured above, after the event, and here’s what they had to say:
Andrea (left .. ya, we know you'd have figured that out!)
“This is the first time in a long time that I’ve given blood … and it felt so good to do it! I’d had a long, bad week and giving blood just elevated me”.
Zoli (middle)
“In general, went well. I'm afraid of needles so it's always tense for me. At the clinic the people are very nice and professional. They try to accommodate with all the requests regarding the procedure – for example, using my right hand and ‘I don't want to look, just let me know when done’ ”.
John (right)
John also said he felt good about the experience and was pleased to spend the time with his work team outside of the office. Those of you who’ve had the pleasure of working with him, will appreciate his rather unique approach to participating in the blood drive.
“I turned to the person beside me and asked if he wanted to make it a competition around bleed time”. John went on to say (aka, brag) that his bleed time that day was his “personal best”.
Note to our readers: Bleed time is a statistic available to you when you give blood – along with things like hemoglobin level and blood type.
Without wanting to trounce on Johns personal best bleed time, Canadian Blood Services says “Your bleed time is the time it took for you to complete the blood donation. There is no better or worse number. The average is about 10 minutes. Bleeding time will all depend on hydration day to day, all individuals can be different”. (we are sure that in the back of their minds they, too, were thinking … yeah, John!)
'Good Job' to our Blood Donor team of Superheroes.
