Knees Up Mother Brown » donor http://www.abcnortheast.co.uk/kneesupmotherbrown Mon, 06 Feb 2012 11:17:23 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Feeling generous? Give life? http://www.abcnortheast.co.uk/kneesupmotherbrown/2011/02/19/feeling-generous-give-life/ http://www.abcnortheast.co.uk/kneesupmotherbrown/2011/02/19/feeling-generous-give-life/#comments Sat, 19 Feb 2011 18:14:02 +0000 dawniebrown https://dawniebrown.wordpress.com/?p=846 This post is not sponsored or anything like that, it’s just a reminder of how doing something very little has such huge benefits.

The average human body has 5-6 litres of blood in it. I found out whilst chatting to the nurses here that on Monday alone they estimated I lost 3.5 litres of blood and this doesn’t take into account the bleeds on fri, sat or Sunday. During Monday I was given at least 9 units of blood that I’m aware of. It is probably without doubt that if the same thing had happened before blood transfusions were available then I wouldn’t be here right now.

As I’m not going to be allowed to go and donate some blood back for quite a while I thought I’d put my blog to some good use and appeal to those of you who are in a position to give blood to consider doing it. It really is a small thing that saves lives and I will always be grateful to the mystery donors behind all the blood I received.

You can find out more about how to donate blood at the following website Give blood

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