Path: utzoo!genat!clunk!lsuc!dave
From: dave@lsuc.uucp (David Sherman)
Newsgroups: tor.general
Subject: Someone wants your blood
Message-ID: <1988Jan26.120535.2949@lsuc.uucp>
Date: 26 Jan 88 17:05:31 GMT
Distribution: tor
Organization: Law Society of Upper Canada, Toronto
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"The other day I received a letter that said, 'Darling, I
 love you and cannot live without you.  Marry me or I will
 kill myself.'  Well, I was a little disturbed at this until
 I took another look at the envelope and saw it was addressed
 to 'Occupant'."
	-- Tom Lehrer

This message is addressed to you *personally*, even though
you think you're reading netnews.

The Red Cross blood donor clinics constantly need blood.  We
hear about it when there's a shortage and hospitals have to
start cancelling elective surgery (as happened the other day),
but the need is constant.  If you're healthy, >17 and <65, you
can give every three months.

They call it "the gift of life".  Even though I'm very busy, and
even though I can value the cost to me of taking an hour off from
working for clients, I make time to give blood regularly.
You should too.  The process takes under an hour, is completely
safe, and almost painless.  (I've given 31 times.)

No, I don't like having a needle in my arm either.  But if I
or my family ever need a blood transfusion, I want to know that
it'll be there for us.  And it won't if people don't give.

There are permanent blood donor clinics at the ManuLife Centre
(Bay & Bloor) and the Royal Bank Plaza (Bay & Wellington).

I'd like to make this a co-operative contest.  If this posting
prompts you to give blood, let me know.  (If it prompts you to
at least consider it, let me know too.)  Let's get 30 donations
from Toronto-area netters and make a difference!

David Sherman
947-3466

(P.S. and don't give me that crap about being scared of needles
or scared of the sight of blood. You think I look at it??)
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