Ode to Lane Memorial Blood Bank

Some of the things I've done at LMBB...

• Called donors and asked them to donate
• Registered donors as they entered the blood center
• Printed Calling Lists, and entered calling information into Alpha-Micro
• Prepared gifts for volunteers and multiple time donors
• Registered donors on bloodmobiles
• Ate nearly all the donor refreshments at the Bethesda Lutheran BMB
• Ate lunch in the Sony cafeteria ;)
• Entered every donation and credit every night in a computer system older than me for 6 mos.
• Got to know Keith, the janitor and Dan the on-call relief courier
• Logged billing information for unnamed newborns, and cancer patients whose names often appeared in Register Guard obituaries
• Donated Blood
• Been deferred
• Wrote thank you cards to new donors
• Been involved in a car accident while on the BMB
• Prepared letters to inform donors they could never donate again
• Prepared letters to inform donors they had an incurable disease
• Reported blood product deviations to the FDA
• Confirmed every relevant deferral from Alpha Micro transferred to BBCS
• Scheduled bloodmobile visits
• Prepared Bloodmobile trip sheets
• Wrote thank you letters to bloodmobile coordinators
• Reported crummy bloodmobile collections at customer service meetings
• Processed and delivered tubes to take to the airport
• Moved into the blood bank for 18 months
• Learned to turn off the fire alarm
• Woke up to the security alarm...3 times
• Set off the security alarm...2 times
• Unintentionally learned RFI's 1-800 number by heart
• Initiated the creation of the 3rd on-call courier position
• Learned to hula with platelets
• Delivered Blood to the Register Guard at midnight
• Delivered Blood to the State Police for a gunshot wound victim in Florence
• Delivered irradiated blood to McKenzie Willamette Hospital in the middle of the
  night
• Picked up blood for OML at 3am from the downtown Greyhound station....3 nights in a row
• Took samples from APH units to monitor for bacterial contamination
• Took samples from APH units for platelet counts
• Caused APH units to be discarded
• Caused an RBC and platelet to be discarded
• Been threatened by a father whose daughter passed out in the shower after donating
• Informed Blood Bank of Hawaii we "can't spare 50 random platelet units"
• Been called by PSBC at 4am on a Sunday to inform me that BBCS will be offline for a half hour, and to ask that I "let everyone know"
• Ate more than my fair share of cookies
• Changed titles 6 times
• Learned why I'm proud to be a part of Lane Memorial Blood Bank Learned how important
• Lane Memorial Blood Bank is to the Lane County Community

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