Cruisers to the Rescue with A- Blood

“My wife Donna is in the hospital in Puerto Vallarta,” reports Richard Pomeroy of the Oregon-based Polaris 43 Flying Carpet. “She got strep throat, and the antibiotics the doctors gave her ate a hole in her stomach, causing internal bleeding. She needed blood, but she’s a rare A- blood type, and there were only two pints available in all of Puerto Vallarta. So the call went out to the cruising fleet, and they responded. So far they’ve donated six pints of compatible blood. We just love the cruising fleet!”

It will be remembered that, on January 6 this year, Katrina Liana of Marina Riviera Nayarit and Veronica Gomez Garcia of the Manos de Amor (Hands of Love) Orphanage brought 25 orphaned kids together for a special King’s Day Party at the marina. Richard and Donna were there to make sure each child got a backpack, which the Pomeroys had brought down from the States. Maybe there’s something to this karma thing.