“17 years ago, I lost half my blood volume after delivering my son. I had scheduled a C-section. I had a difficult time when my daughter was born and so I wasn't sure how it was going to go with my son. I went home for about 10 days when I had a delayed hemorrhage. It was an emergent situation pretty quickly. I went to see my OB-GYN. Luckily, her office was at the hospital, so they just wheeled me down and did what ended up being a whole afternoon of emergency surgery. I needed a lot of blood — 15 units. I am embarrassed to admit I had only given blood once before that. I was in the hospital for a little while and my first thought when I started getting better was there were all these things that I could do, but the most basic level of it was blood donation because if people hadn't given blood, I wouldn't be here to parent my children. I felt incredibly selfish for not having given that part of me as much as I should have before. I've tried to make up for it since then. I've made blo...