Take Me To Post Comment Form With gas prices the way they are, your having to pay an arm and a leg for gas these days to get around town might as well take the bus and have someone drive me. But this bus asked for Blood!! Now thats going way too far! I took a bus here in the SCV some time back that never left it's stop and I walked out missing a pint of blood! How did that happen here in the SCV and in broad daylight you ask?

Now you all know I'm pulling your leg by now, right? The Red Cross actually has a mobile bus that parks in front of local businesses and I had not donated blood that year!! I made previous arrangements to hop on this bus. I was looking forward to donating blood and later rewarding myself with a coffee while reading my favorite blogs on the Signal website authored by my favorite blogger "jpsthesignal". Well someone has to read them!!! Might as well be me, me, me!.

It is such a great feeling knowing that someone's life could be saved as a result of a blood donation. Some Interesting stats. Every 2 seconds someone in this nation will need a blood transfusion. One blood donation can help save up to 3 lives!

Actor Kiefer Sutherland talks about some interesting "24" hour stats. Now he's the one who should be taking a bus, but that's for another blog! Go online to the Red Cross Site and watch a few testimonials of some of those lives saved by past donations.

I would like to personally thank the staff at the mobile bus specifically Juanita Ramirez, pictured by herself and from left to right Nadia Mills, Mayra Liera, and Maria Salica of the American Red Cross. I joked with Nadia that "this is the only workplace you can ask for blood and people are happy to give it!" You all made my visit (painless) you were all pros, and you all seemed to enjoy what you are doing, even putting up with all of my corny jokes and antics. I also want to thank the staff at the Valencia Red Cross as well where I have also found the same level of all of the above when visiting them in the past.

I believe what you all do is so important and vital for our local communities. This group of (Heroes) travel each day within a region that can take them as far as Burbank, Lancaster, and Ventura. Thank you all for what you do.

Would you take this bus if it rolled into your part of town?

May the source be with you.

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