LIFE ACROSS AMERICA 2010

Good morning,

I’m now in Astoria, OR, awaiting the start of LAA2008 on Monday morning.

on 14Jun08 we were in Eugene, OR, at Lane Memorial Blood Bank for the World Blood Donor Day blood drive!

We met with Chris and Glenda on Friday night(13Jun08) after driving up from Santa Rosa,CA, lots of miles!

Friday night we stayed at the best bed and breakfast inn ever, in Eugene, OR! (it was Glenda’s home) So lots of thanks and kudos to Glenda for taking great care of us!

We arrived early at Lane Memorial Blood Bank and was greeted by Chris, Flo, John, and lots of their hard working staff.

The blood drive started at 0900 hrs and went until 1300 hrs!

I met some incredible donors! (see photo link below) or go to LAA2008 blog link.

I was able to say “thank you” to many 1st time donors, Sherry, Michelle and many returning donors!

It was a great blood drive and there were over 41 units donated and many referrals.

I spent all my time shaking hands and saying “thank you” to each of the donors … letting them know that it was 110 donors just like them that donated just one unit of blood each … which saved my life!

For which I am eternally grateful!

Thanks to Chris and the Lane Memorial Blood Bank staff who go out of their way to make each donor feel special! (I had many donors tell me that staff like Bonnie, John, Cheryl, were the reason that they liked coming back to donate each time! What a testimony of customer service!

I must say each of our donors are incredibly giving people and the one thing that many of them told me about giving blood was: “it’s so easy, everyone should do it!”

Larry “I’m happy, I’m enthusiastic and I’m glad to be ALIVE!” Frederick

http://s278.photobucket.com/albums/kk118/larryjfr/Life%20Across%20America%202008/06-14-08%20–%20EugeneOR/

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