Blood Recipient
You have no cause for anything but gratitude and joy.
Gautama Buddha
RECEIVING THE GIFT OF BLOOD
When people receive blood transfusions, the circumstances are almost never happy. Whether blood loss is due to a car accident, postpartum hemorrhage, or the on-going treatment of a disease, transfusions arrive in our lives in the midst of hardship—physical and emotional.
But rather than seeing the transfusion itself as a sign of this suffering, we can choose to see the offering of blood as a gift…
