As blood pooled out of the crook of her elbow and into a bag, King remarked that she's a "good bleeder." She brought her son, 4-year-old Max, who watched wide-eyed as a worker poked a needle into his mom's arm. "And this is just something that I can help do." "I often feel small in the world," King said. Megan King, a North Ogden mother, said she started donating blood 12 years ago after watching her uncle struggle with health issues and undergo several transfusions. In the student union at Weber State on Monday, students milled between tables advertising men's soccer tryouts and asking women to "Rush Delta." Some people made it past the booths to a third floor ballroom to donate blood. Students, she said, are one of the Red Cross' most stable source of donations. Supplies often dip during the summer when students are not in school and people are on vacation. "We've been faced with a situation through the summer that we're distributing blood faster to the hospitals than donations are coming in," said Nakamura, who added that the organization is struggling to keep a five-day supply of blood on the shelves. Nationally, the American Red Cross has had a shortage of blood since July, according to Tammy Nakamura, spokeswoman for the Lewis and Clark Blood Services Region of the American Red Cross, which covers Utah, Montana, Idaho and Las Vegas. That's because the annual "blood battle" between the two northern Utah schools - in which students, faculty and staff compete to see who can collect the most blood - kicked off Monday. OGDEN - The rivalry between Weber State University and Utah State University is about to get bloody. Reading or replaying the story in itsĪrchived form does not constitute a republication of the story. Only for your personal, non-commercial use.
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