Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
By IAN MINIELLY
IRONWOOD - The American Red Cross spent Wednesday in the Ironwood Memorial Building collecting blood and giving out drinks and cookies. As a visitor, the process of donating blood is nearly seamless. Arrive, fill out some paperwork, answer some questions, get in the proverbial donation line, get stabbed in the arm, wait while one pint of one's blood is drained away, eat some cookies and drink something and leave.
For most people giving blood is a pretty quick assembly line system that is never perfected and always changing, but close enough to e...