Week 2: Campus Event : American Red Cross Blood Drive

Mark Diller at a double red cell donation machine. He is a universal donor, so this machine allows for him to give double the red blood cells, but receive his plasma back with a saline mixture. His nurse, Lorena Eschilman, has been helping the Red Cross for about 5 years, and helped the process run smoothly.

Though Mark Diller has been giving blood regularly for 20 years, he still gets nervous when the needle is inserted into his arm, you can see him squeezing the stress ball to get his blood pumping.

The American Red Cross Blood drive was coordinated by student government, mostly Jeff Lange V.P and Roxanne Smith V.P elect. Pictured here is Mark Diller's blood slowly flowing into the double red blood cell machine.