you know i have given blood for a 
long time
what prompts me is knowing the need
out there is so great.
there's so many people
I've known people who've lost their lives
because there wasn't blood there for them
We're at the donor central at our central site in
saint paul and at the center we collect
whole blood.
We need five hundred units of blood
every day to support the patients in our community.
"put some pressure there, 
arm straight up in the air"
During the school year the students at
high schools and colleges hold blood
drives that their institutions
so in the summers
those drives don't exist so we're down 
about eleven percent
I believe I started my 64th gallon today
and as time goes on we
we take on things that we'd rather not have,
like diseases and things that would
would preclude us and i would hope that
indeed i would need blood someday
that there'd be a plint out there for me.
you will see us
really asking for help
for help particularly around the holidays
uh... thanksgiving and christmas new
year's
the fourth of july memorial day labor
day and that's when our
