Movie Choices for Platelet Donations
Donating platelets lasts about the same amount of time it takes to watch your average movie.
Many donation sites offer a choice of movies and we often see donors blog about the movie they watched while sitting in the chair.
What movie do you think goes best with saving lives?
Here are a couple of entertaining examples:
I began watching Clerks II. The donor center told me after I started the DVD that they didn’t have any headphones. [...] the movie is very creative… and …. inappropriate. I was zoned out in that chair just minding my own dirty business and squeezing that stress ball, giving platelets, laughing at these guys in the movie but other donors clearly didn’t think it was funny. [...] Some of you will probably be horrified that I was watching a movie with foul language (even at a low volume) at the Red Cross blood donor center. Others of you will probably think this is funny. I’m somewhere in between.
I gave platelets for the first time yesterday. I’ve been giving blood for the past two years, and this summer the Red Cross sent me a letter saying I have a high platelet level and am eligible to give platelets. [...] There were three movies to choose from, and I chose Made of Honor, figuring that even if I wasn’t paying any attention to it, I could still enjoy very handsome Patrick Dempsey. The movie was terrible, and I was way too distracted to follow it at all, so it was OK that I was finished long before the movie ended. The procedure itself took less than an hour.
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