Today I celebrate my 5-year wedding anniversary. I've been with my husband, and only my husband, for almost 10 years. Both of us are HIV-negative. Neither of us do drugs. We're parents to a beautiful 8-month old daughter. We're boring suburbanites. Neither of us engage in any behavior that would expose us to HIV.
A few years ago, my mom received blood transfusions that saved her life. I now want to donate blood. I want to do so as often as I can to return the favor and save other people's mother's and father's and daughter's and son's and brother's and sister's lives.
Please let me do so.