So, I convinced a few of my friends to donate with me we were to make an outing out of our donation. I took one of the many leaflets and suddenly came to the realization that I had never donated blood before- I didn’t even know my own blood type! As a young and healthy teenager, I decided it was finally time to get my blood drawn I had friends who donated every year, yet it never occurred to me that I could and should donate. “Interested in donating blood?” This startling question presented itself as a storm of Red Cross pamphlets filled my high school’s library.
