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Blood Drive: It's Personal for Me


Last week I wrote to you asking you to make giving blood personal to you. This week I’m writing because it’s personal for me.

August 9, I head back to WellStar North Fulton Hospital to have a second kidney procedure. I must have 15 to 20 kidney stones removed from my left kidney. I had the right kidney cleaned out March 29. August 9th is a rather wonderful, yet ominous date for me. Two years ago, on that date my daughter received word in the morning that she was indeed pregnant with my first grandchild, it was the little guy you saw pictured last week. In the afternoon she received a call informing her they may have to pull the plug on her father…me, as I lay in a coma battling Covid.

As I head back for this second procedure, it is possible I will have to have blood infused. I didn’t have to last time and I’m hopeful I won’t have to this time either, but I won’t know until I know. 

The bottom line of this is simple. You don’t know until it happens if you will ever need blood. It’s good to know there are people out there willing and able to do so. Please be one of them. If you can’t yourself find someone to give in your honor. It will truly be an honor to them to do so. Just ask them. You will truly be a blessing to the one who receives it, just as it was for me two years ago when I received 3 pints.

Posted by Jonathan Crooks
August 1, 2023

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