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From: wombat@ccvaxa.UUCP
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Subject: Re: January is National Volunteer Blood
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Date: Mon, 13-Jan-86 00:30:00 EST
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Posted: Mon Jan 13 00:30:00 1986
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Nf-From: ccvaxa.UUCP!wombat    Jan 12 23:30:00 1986


For Will Martin's benefit, not all blood collectors are so blase. Our county
blood bank (not associated with the Red Cross) has several plaques on their
wall listing all 4-gallon-or-more donors. (One guy is up to 12 gallons.)
They also give out keychains for the 1st gallon, coffee mugs, etc., just
like public TV pledge drives. The nurses are almost always good with the
needle (I have had problems a couple of times when my vein rolled out from
under it), and to reassure you there's a picture of a chimp holding a needle
and a grapefruit saying, "Don't worry, I've practiced on hundreds of
grapefruit!" Maybe you should stop giving your blood to a large corporation
:-).

"When you are about to die, a wombat is better than no company at all."
				Roger Zelazny, *Doorways in the Sand*

						Wombat
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