He just keeps giving
Thursday, July 12, 2007
An hour and a half strapped to a chair would leave most people grumpy, or at least bored. But Steve Morse stayed energetic and talkative Tuesday as a needle slid into his arm and every drop of blood in his body filtered through a machine that separated about two pints of platelets out of his blood. Morse wasn't nervous; this was the 300th time he'd been in the donor chair to give blood, plasma or platelets.
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