They’re about donating blood, and how deeply it affects more people than you might realize. Or more specifically, since a bone marrow biopsy when I was six months old diagnosed me with a rare form of anemia that causes my body to not make enough red blood cells (also known as Thalassemia). Red blood cells circulate throughout our body, carrying oxygen from our lungs and over to the rest of our organs and tissues via a protein called hemoglobin. In a nutshell, you need a certain amount of red blood cells - and therefore a certain amount of hemoglobin - to live. Donating red blood cells doesn’t take long and needles are not scary, I promise!

Source: Huffington Post January 14, 2018 04:01 UTC