And typically it's maybe they'll have 15, 20, 30 people that are a close match for a patient. And so like Mark said, occasionally you'll get a call. Part of that process is also checking out for matches with patients. As part of your checkup, they'll take a sample of blood and run lots of analysis on it to make sure that it's OK for patients to receive. And it brought it home that mine was going somewhere other than to a big refrigerator. It was like, 'This is not just cookies,' you know, getting cookies afterward. It's like an organ donor type of situation, but this one had to be called in. When I first started donating, the person you were donating for was in the next bed. They wanted me to donate specifically for this person. But certainly here, when I got a call once that some patient in the hospital reacted positively to my blood. While other than seeing my dad hooked up (to an IV). Korinek : For me, it was the first time I got a call. Q: When was the first time you both realized the effect you were having on people and what was that feeling was like when you first experienced it? It was just kind of odd that we would be this close. We started talking about numbers, and we were then like, within 10 of each other. We talked before we were running, and blood donation came up. So with him being the grizzled veteran of running and I was wanting to do that. And he had just completed a marathon and that was kind of on my bucket list, to run a marathon. The parents got together, the kids were doing this, and we started talking and running came up. I didn't really know him that well and we met. We both were homeschooling kids, and there was a worldview discussion. Korinek : We started getting connected through our kids. I remember thinking, 'OK, this is just normal.' And so when the opportunity came along in high school for a blood drive, and then college, I was like 'Yeah, let's talk this up.' So it seemed natural. I don't remember why or how, but sitting in usually what was a church basement or something like that with the Red Cross. Dave Johnson: My dad was a longtime donor, and I went along with him a couple of times.
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