ALL about Caleb

o.k. so maybe it's not that fun. unless you get some unusual pleasure out of it. i do. & you get a free t-shirt out of it sometimes. & free cookies & dixie cup kool-aid (at least in my past experiences). so anyway. sign up, please if you're from Del Rio...or actually, anywhere you are cause the local blood banks could always use blood I'm sure. so anyway, this Friday which is the...24th? from 12-about 4pm the bloodsuckers will be at wackenhut. call 778-0096 & ask for the medical dept for more info. in all seriousness though-my first time giving blood was when i was a resident assistant at utsa (chisholm hall) about 10 years ago. it wasn't too bad, really-i'm the biggest chicken when it comes to needles so for me to say that means alot-& i've given blood plenty of times thereafter. the irony? at that time i put my name on the bone marrow donor registry. i got a letter about 2 years ago at my parent's address cause i was a possible match & they needed to know if i was still interested. i told them of course!!! all my immediate family was visiting my grandparents & my grandma asked why i would do such a thing. i'm not making this up...i told her what if my kids were to be afflicted with something (my cousin had hodgkin's disease so the reality felt subconciously close i guess)...i would want anybody & everybody to help....if all it meant was a shot or even minor surgery & i could save a life from something as little as that- i mean, what greater gift can you give? and look what happened!!! hopefully caleb will never need a bone marrow procedure done. minorities are badly needed on that list. my plea to you is that if you are able to make it on friday, please put yourself on that list...you can always say no if you get cold feet up until the very last minute to be a bone marrow donor. so that's my little soapbox...oh! but if anything else, please try to make it out to give blood! thank you!!!!! p.s. they never contacted me back about donating bone marrow so i'm glad that man never needed it after all.