Friday, December 11, 2009

Blood and Booze

They say not to drink alcohol for 36 hours after giving blood. In that 36 hours you’re just cranking blood cells- you just gave that Capri Sun pouch 10% of your body’s finest.

Blood cells that grow up in alcoholic households develop bad habits. As kids, maybe they don’t take enough iron. They start taking adrenaline as teens and they switch blood type every couple of months. They hang out with cancer cells and can’t hold down an oxygen molecule with any regularity. The red ones get into fights with the white ones and no one listens to the pacemaker.

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