As some of you know I live in NYC. I couldn’t give blood before because they ran out of donor bags and now they don’t want my type. My cousin from Hemet CALIFORNIA, who is a fire/rescue dude has been flown out here and is down at ground zero. So he is doing more than I am in MY town! Ugh! I feel so impotent and useless.
So today ABC News.com posted supplies that the rescue workers need down there and I organized my office and I went out and bought them some of the stuff they need. Nothing big. Some aspirine and saline solution and stuff like that. Oh and a 50 bag of dog food for the rescue dogs.
All of which I just dropped off at collection point. Some how this makes me feel a little better.
I understand how you feel. I really want to help, but I can’t even donate blood because I did it a couple of weeks ago.
Sooo… I got together with like minded folks and we started collecting and boxing up teddy bears to send to the children of NY. Sites for this are all over Oklahoma. I’ll go tomorrow and do it some more.
It definately made me feel like I had done something to pay a little back the people that had done so much for Oklahoma a few years ago.
Yeah, a whole lotta people wish there was something they can do. I’m glad you got a chance to do something. Some singles at my office have volunteered to Red Cross to do data entry/phones. It’s like 4 to 6 hour shifts. I can’t, I got 2 yr. old and no sitter. The blood centers here, in Dallas, are booked up. We’re asked to wait a few days, week, 2 weeks. I did buy some flags at the Army/Navy store and give 'em to people in our office. I guess my best gesture all week has been signing off quite a few e-mails with “I love you”.
Early this morning, before I went to work, I saw a doctor on TV, an opthamologist who is working with the rescue people, say thay needed the good quality kind of face masks for breathing when there is a lot of crap in the air, dust, asbestos, etc. Many have been making do with those piddly little things intended only for smoke or germs(ala Michael Jackson)