Giving to help others

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I was watching to news last night and they was talking to a woman that had donated blood. The woman's name is Brenda Montgomery from Lake City South Carolina. She been donating blood since 1993 as has donated over 10 gallons of blood so far. So she has given blood over 80 times so far, wow! She said when they tested her blood, they found out she had a rare antigen in it, so she is now on the rare blood donor list. Montgomery said. “And when I found that out I was like, hey you know what I am special! I’m donating blood to help people but then I also have something special in my blood that will help another group of people.” (Quoted from an article I found on it today) You can donate every 56 days, and Montgomery goes as much as she can. She usually goes four times a year and is aiming for five donations this year. While I was online I thought it would be interesting to read about some other people who has donated a lot. Here are just a few of them: Lillian Bloodworth from Gulf Breeze Florida has donated 23 gallons of blood. She started donating in 1966 and donated blood until she finally had to stop when she was 85. The article was from 2020 there are some articles has given 70 gallons and some even higher then that. These are the people that donate their platelets. As quoted from the artical in the Denver Post :"These donations, which can be done every other week, are essential for cancer therapy, open-heart surgery, blood disorders and organ transplants. Platelet donations are particularly needed because they have a much shorter shelf life than other blood donations. Platelets last only five days, where whole blood donations last 42 days and plasma donations can keep for a year, Lambert said." As of 2018 a woman named Chris Orr has donated 70 gallons since 1976 Arthur Maxwell from Oakland Calif. has donated a total of 50 gallons, he has a very rare blood type, so he feels he needs to donate to help others that may need this rare blood type. One other one that I read about was Victor Gorday from Florida. He has been donating his blood since 1978 and on Dec 15th of last year he donated his 125 gallon of blood. This is just a few out of so many that donates, I want to say thank you to whoever donates. I think it is so great that there are those that donate this much. I have donated, but nothing compared to any of these. How do you feel about donating blood, or do you donate?