Besides all the other reasons to do so, helping cancer patients, physical trauma survivors including those with multiple burns, sickle cell patients, surgery patients, and others, I recommend is a way of knowing how needed we are. It has helped me through recent depression and mixed mood times.

Here, I am donating platelets for cancer patients. I do this every other week for three times in a row, then I donate whole blood for those in need of multiple transfusions, then again platelets three times, and repeating the cycle.

It really, really helps me remember my value.