Saturday, October 15, 2011
Today, 81 people registered, and 61 pints were collected.
Early morning. The ASBP crew arrives from Wright-Patterson AFB and begin unloading their equipment for the drive.
Registration - Station 1. Donors enter and register here. Identification is established, and a form filled out. If a donor has left the United States since 1980, a second detailed form is also filled out.
Here "Mo," Janette, and Sgt. Roop handle registration.
Station 2 and Station 3. Donors are physically prescreened. Temperature, pulse, BP, and blood iron is measured. Then, behind it at Station 3 come interviews. Donors are asked about possible past exposure to medically hazardous diseases.
Station 4. Successful registrants sit in chairs and donate.
Station 5. Food. Donors and their families partake of food and drink.
Past Am. Legion DIstrict Commander Steve Ebersole and National Guard Family Support Coordination Supervisor Susan Bogan confer about the next blood drive.
1st Sgt. Schultz and Mrs. Roger Bock in line to give. The 1st Sgt. is one of the mainstays of the Reserve Center, and has been coordinating the center's participation in these drives for three years now.