When you donate, you are doing it anonymously. You are helping friends and family, and sometimes someone you don't even know, but lives here in the community.
The guys have been gone for a year, so we lost them for a year. Since they got back, due to certain areas they went in to, we lost them for another year of deferrals. So we lose the Third ID for two years. That's a large donor base that we have.
Not only is it trauma victims, but we have surgery, we have children with various diseases, like sickle cell, leukemia, who are constantly using blood products all the time.
