Donate blood to save your own life

Yesterday, I went to Children’s Hospital Los Anglese to donate blood. I have been doing this for about twenty years and have donated more than eight gallons of blood for the children.

Most people don’t realize that donating blood is very  good for your own heart especially for men and post menopausal women. This is because human beings do not excrete iron. I suppose it must be that during the millions of years of our evolution we would get injured often and we had to preserve the precious oxygen carrying iron (iron is at the center of the hemoglobin molecule and carries oxygen from the lungs to the cells).

However, iron oxidizes easily – that’s why it is used to carry oxygen in the blood. Another name for oxidized iron is rust. Excess iron rusts easily and this rust is bad for for your heart. When we lose blood and balance the amount of iron in our bodies. In the olden days often physicians would cut the back of people and bleed them as a method of healing. This was a crude and potentially dangerous method but the principle of loosing blood to heal the heart is true.

The best way to get rid of some of that excess iron is through blood donation. You are helping to save someone else’s life as well as your own. It really feels great to donate blood. It does your loving compassion heart (your soul) as well as doing your physical heart (the pump) so much good.

Unfortunately there are so many myths about blood donation. I wish to debunk some:

• You cannot get HIV/AIDS or anything else from donating blood -in the USA they always use fresh sterile needles and other equipment for every donation.
• It does not hurt a lot – you do feel a prick, but not any great pain. The discomfort is only when the needle is going in and that’s for two, three seconds.
• You cannot become anemic from donating blood. Before they allow you donate blood they prick a finger and they test a drop to make sure you have enough iron. I typically go back every eight weeks and have never had too little iron. But if your iron level was too low they would not withdraw your blood.
• It does not take too much time – phone before hand and make an appointment. That way you’ll miss days when a church, school or other group is having a blood drive, and you will be in and out in less than an hour. I’m typically out of there in less than forty five minutes.
• You are not too old to donate blood. There are no longer upper age limits for blood donation.

So please phone your nearest children’s Hospital, Red Cross/Red Crescent organization or other blood donation center and save your own heart as well as feeling great that you are giving life to another.

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The following is what I had written about this subject in 1999:

When one donates blood one give the gift of life. It feels so good to know that one is contributing toward saving a fellow human’s life. Some people are scared of donating blood, falsely imagining that it is possible to catch diseases through donation of blood. In fact the blood banks always use fresh sterilized needles and not only is donating blood totally safe but in fact it lowers ones chances of heart disease.

As a personal note: I used to have an injection phobia and used an NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming) technique to remove my phobia and donate blood to the children’s hospital in Los Angeles. I cannot recommend this too highly. Today I donated my 17th pint of blood to the children’s hospital and I feel so good knowing that my blood is helping save some child’s life.

The method is described here : Boost your self-esteem by countering negative experiences using NLP

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