Allen Massey opens with Invocation 

Allen has moved up to the Dallas area to be close to kids & grandkids. Allen joined the Kerrville Noon Rotary Club in 1993 so he has a total of 27 years with the club. He has been made an honorary member of our club.

 

 

 

Tammy the does the Pledge of Allegiance

 

 

Dr. Samantha Gomez Ngamsuntikul, Associate Medical Director at BioBridge Global, was part of the team that implemented the Brothers in Arms program to bring lifesaving blood transfusions to seriously injured patients in San Antonio and South Texas. 

 

The subsidiaries of BioBridge are follow the link https://biobridgeglobal.org/subsidiaries.

 

Witch includes the South Texas Blood and Tissue Center.

 

Dr. Gomez talked about since the pandemic started less folks are giving blood. This increases the urgency of blood donations. The Blood center is down to like 2 days supply. 

 

Dr. Gomez talked about convalescent blood drive. This is taking blood from people that have recovered from

recovered from COVID-19. This blood can be used to help cure people that have COVID-19. For more info https://southtexasblood.org/covid19.

 

She also talked about antibodies both A and B. to find out more about antibodies see https://southtexasblood.org/covid19.

 

Dr. Gomez also has advise about giving blood if you are nervous.

 

Once you get there you will go thru a mini physical, iron count, blood pressure and the like.

then you will have to answer questions.

 

Its not that hard, I have given over 100 units.

 

the 8 differrent types of blood see link https://www.knowledgepublisher.com/article/326/blood-groups-types-explained-blood-group-diet-blood-group-matching.html#:~:text=If%20Your%20Blood%20Group%20is%20O%2B%20A%2B%20AB-,YES%20YES%20A-%20B%2B%20YES%203%20more%20rows

 

 

 

 

 

Prayers for Lucy Ortiz Wilke she broke her ankle. How you ask?

 

Soooo...how I broke my ankle: I was walking the dogs out of town. They saw another dog. They were pulling toward the other dog, I was pulling the opposite way. I was on a slight incline on some gravel and fell and broke THREE bones in my ankle. My foot was literally to the side like a broken up zombie. Completely crooked. It was awful. My dogs usually don’t pull like that - sometimes they do, sometimes they don’t. I had hiking boots on but wasn’t wearing socks and they were on loose because I was just taking them for a quick 7 AM potty walk. As you can see, they feel very bad about it.

 

Friends! Thank you for your prayers and good vibes! I’m home and just had a yummy dinner of jasmine rice and apples by Chef Ken Wilke! Surgery went from 12:00-2:30 PM and while the injury was bad, Dr. Morris, is pleased with the outcome. We are so blessed to have him right here in our community! I got home at 5:00PM and slept until 7:00 PM! This is so dejavu! I’m even wearing the same color nail polish as when I broke my left ankle in Colorado in 2016! Thank you for your prayers, good vibes, Facebook comments, texts, etc. I really appreciate them. Y’all are awesome friends! It will be a long healing process but I know I have friends who have had or have worse, so I’m ready to follow doctor’s orders and am thankful that my situation is not worse and will be all behind me soon. In addition, I have a great team at work capable of holding down the fort in my absence and as I work remotely from home for a while. Thank you again!

 

 

 

 Stockton was wearing his Rotary pin when her name was drawn, so he won a bottle of Sangria! There were several called that either were absent or not wearing pins.