GIVING LIFE BLOOD

 
Beautiful sunny day, there we were the stalwarts of “bloodletting” from Rotary Hawthorn. Unfortunately, four members had to drop out due to family or health issues but we courageously continued.
Lunch, juice more water on top of the litres we all had consumed the day before and Sunday morning so that our veins would graciously, painlessly, allow the blood to flow.
 
Lunch was a chicken salad and not a sandwich because do you know what a vampire’s favourite sandwich might be?  ….   A blood-wich.
 

 

Only five of us this year, but we made donations which we hope will save a life or two or three! Much laughter and some poor taste humour was generated around the table. It could be said that anaemic puns are the iron-y of comedy.
Thanks to Ari Talantis, Kim D’Arcy and her delightful daughter Katherine, and Sheridan Brown. Here’s to next year, and hope that our numbers will grow and members will invite their family or friends to donate to Lifeblood.
Let’s hope next year, I don’t hear the following reasons for inability to donate:
“I wanted to donate blood but I was too vein!”
“I tried to give my blood away at a blood drive, but they said my haemoglobin was too low. I told them that was just a pigment of their imagination!”
Onward and upwards,
Dorothy Gilmour