Just as we sat down with our dinner, the captain announced that someone was critically ill. We thought he was going to tell us that we were diverting somewhere. But, instead, he asked for volunteers with O neg or O pos blood to come down to the clinic. So we left our meal right were it was and headed down. He also said that the volunteer needed their donor card showing their blood type. Well since Duane has O neg, the universal donor, we thought that they might want his blood even without his card.
Well, when we got to deck 4, via elevator, and the door opened, I almost lost my breathe. You almost couldn’t get out of the elevator due to the number of people already on deck 4. Several were lining up at the sign up station, because they had their donor card. One lady in our elevator was O neg and had her card. So I knew of at least 5 people who were able, and willing, to donate.
So we went back up to the Lido deck and started dinner all over again. There has been no word about the condition of the patient. I hope they will let us know if the blood helped. But here, in the middle of the Caribbean, on a ship with only 800 passengers, they got a floor full of volunteers in about 2 minutes. Aren’t people great…..
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