Early this morning I went to the St. Paul chapter of the Red Cross to donate blood through a process called apheresis. I've been doing this for many years. This morning I did a special procedure called a granulocyte where I take a small dose of a medication the night before that bumps up my white blood cell count. It's usually for a specific patient, usually with leukemia or some such disease, who requires massive amounts of white blood cells. The process takes around two and a half hours.
Anyway, after watching The Grass Is Greener with Cary Grant and Robert Mitchum on one of those little personal DVD players, I found myself thinking about just how long I've been donating blood. And it occurred to me that my first donation was 35 years ago yesterday. 1972. And no sooner had I thought that thought than I looked up at one of the TVs hanging from the ceiling and saw (although I could not hear) that it's also the 35th anniversary of The Price is Right. What a coincidence.
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