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A Volunteer's Good Deed Returned With Good Wishes
by Andrea Coan
January 28 |
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When Bruce Bahr volunteered to be on the Gala Committee for the American Red Cross of Central South Carolina, he never dreamed he would soon become the recipient of its services. But that is just what happened.
A few months ago Bahr was diagnosed with leukemia. At the hospital, he kept encountering the same situation—a critically low stock of blood and platelets that he desperately needed.
Bahr recalled, “When I first arrived in July, I needed five or six blood transfusions just to get my strength and color up because I was so anemic,” He added that on one of the 48 days he spent in the hospital, the hospital actually ran out of platelets and Bahr had to wait for a shipment from another state.
This prompted Bahr to get on his laptop and begin writing emails to friends, family and organizations like the American Red Cross, asking for help for the dozens of blood transfusions he still needed.
“It's been a blessing to see so many people respond,” Bahr says. He was especially touched when his employer, Coldwell Banker United Realtors, held a blood drive in his name. Nineteen of his 55 co-workers underwent the long, uncomfortable process to donate the platelets that he really needed.
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