BLOOD DONATION

Hello,

Thank you all for your patience with this information.

First, as a brief general update, Carol is at Moffitt Cancer Center preparing to begin the first stages of her treatment and is doing very well so far. Another thing I'll mention for now and in the next post is that we are very very grateful for all of the support we have from you all but while she is at Moffitt she can not receive any kind of Fruit/Vegetable baskets or Plants/Flowers. They will not be brought to her because she is neutropenic and needs to be in isolation because of her low white blood cell counts.

For Donating Blood:

If you have blood type O-, O+, B-, or B+, it can be donated directly to Carol.

If you do not have one of these types, you can still donate blood and let her know that you are doing it for her, but your blood will not be directly donated. It is however, placed into the general pool so it's more symbolic and still greatly appreciated.

Your donation will still need to be analyzed to make sure that it has the best properties to be donated.

You will NEED a "Directed Blood Donation Request Form" filled out by Carol in order to donate. Myself and Jaime will probably keep copies of these to distribute by e-mail, fax or in person.

In order to donate directly to Carol, you will need to donate in Bradenton, FL at Florida Blood Services which is off of Route 301. The address is:

216 Manatee Ave.
Bradenton, FL 34208

If you are too far away to donate directly and you feel that symbolically donating your blood in the way a non-matching donor needs to, there is a rather high fee to ship it, so we hope you are okay with it being a symbolic donation, because we are!

Furthermore, it takes about 3 days for blood to be analyzed before it is sent to Moffitt for Carol.

That is all the information I have gathered so far. If there are any questions I have not answered, please feel free to e-mail me at DanielJGray1@gmail.com or post your question as a comment.

Thanks again,
Daniel