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—GIVE BLOOD. GIVE LIFE.
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Book now to donate Easter long weekendIt’s not too early to help ensure patients get the life-saving blood they need this Easter.
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With many donors away over the long weekend 13–17 April, your donation is even more vital.
01 — PINT-SIZED CANCER SURVIVOR BRINGS BIG BLOOD MESSAGE
03 — WHY WE’RE ALWAYS ON THE HUNT FOR NEW DONORS
05 — FACES OF DONATION
06 — RED25
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AUSTRALIA’S RAREST BLOOD DONORS
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DONORS SHARE THEIR 2017 ASPIRATIONS
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Thank you: Charlotte Rataj’s life was changed by the generosity of blood donors.
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Charlotte Rataj was only three years old when she was diagnosed with leukaemia. Four years on and the bubbly seven year old from Tasmania
is one of 12 blood recipients starring in the Blood Service’s national advertising campaign.
Charlotte’s mum, Tanya Rataj, said she first noticed a pea-sized lump behind her toddler’s ear in April 2012. Charlotte’s tiredness, loss of appetite and lingering cough prompted a visit to the doctor, but it was a week later when they took her to hospital that the diagnosis was made.
Tests revealed Charlotte had leukaemia and she started chemotherapy in Hobart the next day.
Tanya said the family saw first-hand just how important blood donations were.
“Charlotte had two and a half years of treatment and during that time, when she was at her lowest, she was so fortunate to get blood products — it was just amazing to see the difference they made,” Tanya said.
Charlotte fronts our national campaign by starring in the new television and radio commercials that showcase the very real moments she now gets to have thanks to blood donors.
“We know this is going to help so many people and that’s what we want to do. We also want to say a great big thank you to all the blood donors — you’re amazing!” Tanya said.
Speaking about the campaign, the Blood Service’s Acting National Marketing Director, Ben Scales, said the campaign brought blood recipients into the spotlight.
“We’re so excited to share Charlotte’s story with our blood donors and the Australian community,” Ben said.
“Charlotte was very sick a few years ago with leukaemia and used a lot of blood products and this campaign is about showcasing the moments Charlotte is able to now have.”
“She gets to play with her family, she gets to hug them, she gets to do all the things that little kids do — thanks to blood donors.”
“We’ve received some amazing feedback since we launched our SMS notification to donors about where their blood donation went, and this campaign taps into the very real difference those donations make to Aussie patients.”
“Every single recipient in all of our campaigns is here thanks to the generosity of blood donors. We want to show how blood donation impacts, and ultimately saves, the lives of real people.”
But it’s not just Charlotte who has benefited from the generosity of blood donors, with thousands of Australians relying on blood products to survive.
“No one expects they or a loved one will need blood in their lifetime but the reality is one in three Aussies will,” Ben continued.
“Charlotte is just one of thousands of Australians whose lives have been saved through generous blood donations.
“In around an hour you can give a life-saving donation that will make a real difference to a real person — just like Charlotte.”
The Blood Service hopes the new campaign will encourage more people to donate blood.
We know this is going to help so many people and that’s what we want to do. We also want to say a great big thank you to all the blood donors — you’re amazing!
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Detecting new donors: Blood Service nursing assistant Pamela O’Neill with new donor Grace Yao.
It takes one blood donation every eight seconds to meet the ongoing blood needs of patients across the country.
Currently, only 1 in 30 Australians donates blood. That’s around 500,000 people who regularly roll up their sleeves and give one of the most precious gifts of all: a donation of blood that can help save up to three lives.
It may sound like a lot, but what it translates to is less than 3 per cent of our national population are responsible for supplying 1.3 million blood donations every year.
With one in three people likely to need blood in their lifetime and with demand for plasma increasing every year, it’s no wonder we’re always in need of new donors.
Every year around 150,000 donors stop donating blood for a wide range of reasons. Sometimes life gets too busy or often medical
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issues prevent regular donors from returning. A few special donors even reach the retirement age of 81 and retire from donating blood after a lifetime of giving.
To ensure we can continue to meet the changing demand for blood, and to fill the gap left behind by those donors who are no longer able to give, the Blood Service aims to recruit at least 100,000 new donors over the next 12 months.
When you consider an estimated nine million Australians are eligible to donate blood, it shouldn’t be a hard ask.
According to the latest statistics, some Aussies are more willing than others to sign up to save lives. When it comes to first-time donors, women are well and truly leading the battle of the sexes. Data shows that 32-year-old females account for the highest number of new blood donors.
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It takes one blood donation every eight seconds to meet the ongoing blood needs of patients across the country.
Of course, not everyone knows their blood type and at least half the population is female. An ideal new blood donor is anyone who, irrespective of blood type or gender, is aged between 16 and 70, healthy, eligible to donate blood and willing to give up some time and a bit of blood to save someone’s life.
Summer is the perfect time to sign up to save lives, which is why we’re putting the call out now for more new blood donors. Boosting our donor numbers now means we have more eligible donors who can give during the critical winter period, a time when many of our usual donors can’t donate because of colds or flu.
So next time you make a date to donate, why not bring a friend who’s never donated before as a ‘plus one’. After all, they’ll be helping to share the load and, as you know, it only takes an hour of time and saves three lives.
To even the stakes, the Blood Service is this year hoping to boost the number of new male blood donors.
O negative donors are also high on the list of new donors in demand. O negative donors are always needed because their blood can be given to any patient in an emergency. Known as the universal blood type, it’s always in high demand by hospitals. In Australia only 9 per cent of our national population have O negative blood, which means patients rely heavily on these donors.
Similarly, people with AB type blood have universal plasma. AB plasma is in high demand because, like O negative blood, it can be given to anyone in an emergency. The AB blood type is the rarest blood type in Australia, accounting for only 3 per cent of the population, meaning new AB plasma donors are always needed.
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Over 2,000 lives saved: for 42 years Murray Burns has wanted to “do my little bit for society” by donating blood. Last month that “little bit” tallied up to a total of 700 life-saving blood donations. Murray is only the second Victorian to reach this amazing milestone.
Family tradition: South Australian dad Adam Christopher required blood last year following an undiagnosed stomach ulcer. He has recovered well but is unable to increase his blood donation tally of 55 due to a surgical stent. Instead, 17-year-old Zoe has vowed to continue her father’s legacy: “I just want to help anyone in the same situation because without donations my dad might not be here”.
A very grateful teddy: Sadie Aird and her teddy dropped into the Regent Blood Donor Centre in Adelaide recently to thank the complete strangers who helped her continue chemotherapy treatment for leukaemia over the Christmas and New Year holidays. Thousands of generous Australians responded to the Blood Service’s call for blood donations over the festive season.
School Historian: John Waterhouse with Red25 youth ambassadors from Beaconhills College.
STUDENTS MAKE DONATION HISTORYIn 1993, in response to TV ads urgently calling for blood donors, Rebecca Finn, a year 10 student at Beaconhills College in Pakenham, Victoria, decided to act. She put a notice in the student bulletin asking for volunteers for the next Blood Service visit to the Pakenham Hall. Seven students responded and were driven there by the school’s Community Service Coordinator, John Waterhouse.
Little did Rebecca and John know that they had set something in motion that would continue for 24 years. Since that first visit, Beaconhills College students across three campuses have given over 2,700 donations.
Much of this momentum has been due to John, who is now retiring from his post as School Historian. He has plenty of donation
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stories, including the record of seven donations set by Luke Giles and donation ‘races’ with chocolate awarded for the fastest donation time (to the chagrin of the nurses!).
The school has had over 100 Blood Service youth ambassadors. Each year up to five students from each campus attend our ambassador training day, always a highlight for the students.
“We can’t thank the community relations officers enough for all their support and encouragement, especially Sue Karvis and Sarah Lacey”, said John.
“It has been a delight to support the Red Cross Blood Service over this period and to give our students another small way in which they can contribute positively to their community.
“Students will continue to have an opportunity to become new donors by visiting a local centre during school time, just as in the old days. So I hope that Beaconhills will still be supporting the Blood Service at the 50-year mark.”
RIVALS BATTLE IT OUTArch blood-donation rivals have again gone head to head (or arm to arm) in the annual Bundy Blood Battle.
Every November Red25 groups from all over Bundaberg compete to give the most donations. For the past three years Bundaberg Regional Council have taken the title, but this year Wide Bay Hospital and Health Service (WBHHS) was determined to challenge them.
“It might be appealing to our spirit of competition but really the winners are the people who rely on us for blood transfusions,” said Christina Ongley, Director of Communications at WBHHS.
“The majority of people who need life-saving blood transfusions are people such as cancer patients and surgical patients, so they’re pretty close to our hearts, not just as health professionals but also as ordinary family members. Almost all of us know someone who’s needed to receive blood, so this is our chance to give back.”
Ultimately, Bundaberg Regional Council did edge out WBHHS for the win, but the real winners are Australia’s patients: together, the
Blood battler: Bundaberg councillor David Batt (left) with Red25 team coordinator Robyn Silcox and the Blood Service’s Dean Krueger.
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Bundy ‘Battlers’ smashed their goal of 1,000 donations, giving 1,110 donations and saving up to 3,330 lives!
Accepting the 2016 shield, councillor David Batt said, “While it is nice to win the Bundy Blood Battle shield, the greater satisfaction comes from knowing that we have contributed to saving the lives of so many people.”
BLOOD THICKER THAN WATER
On a regular workday last year workers at the Department of Environment, Water and Natural Resources (DEWNR) were greeted by the smiling faces of Billy Blood Drop and our Red25 employees for a pledging event at their Adelaide office building.
On the day, the DEWNR team proved that blood is thicker than water! At the event 10 new donors enrolled to donate, six people pledged to donate and a whopping 22 employees who were already blood donors signed up for the DEWNR Red25 group. The day’s activities also included a Red25 presentation at a lunch event, where DEWNR employees had a chance to learn more about blood donation.
Free Red25 events like this are a great way to learn more and bring donors on board. If you would like Billy and the Red25 team to visit your workplace, school, community group or sports club, contact us on 1300 886 524.
Meeting Billy: DEWNR employees (l-r) Catherine Cox, Josephine De Jager, DEWNR Red25 Coordinator Jo Mitchell-Smith, Birgitte Sorensen and Blood Service Community Relations Officer David McFarlane.
Sunshine Coast police are rallying together for one of their own after Senior Constable Donna Henwood was recently diagnosed with acute myeloid leukaemia, just four years after beating bowel cancer.
Local Caloundra officer Senior Constable Amanda Murphy organised ‘Donate for Donna’, a blood and bone marrow donation drive, to help show their support for Senior Constable Henwood.
The generosity of the local officers was beyond what anyone expected, with the initial goal of 100 Queensland Police Service officers donating by December being blitzed just three weeks after the blood drive started on 25 October.
“The support we received from the Queensland Police Service on the Sunshine
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Blood Drive: Sunshine Coast police flex their donating arms for a good cause.
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Coast was nothing short of amazing,” said Senior Constable Murphy.
“Within three weeks we saw over 100 officers support both their colleague and the wider community by giving blood. Their leadership and comradery is an inspiration.”
The police officers have been donating across the Sunshine Coast, including at the Maroochydore and Nambour Blood Donor Centres as well as the Sunshine Coast Mobile Donor Centre.
“They have helped to fill much needed appointments on the Sunshine Coast and encouraged some of their colleagues to become first-time blood donors,” said Senior Constable Murphy.
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Good sports: Valley Sport employees warming up for the challenge in Victoria’s Goulburn Valley.
HEALTHY COMPETITION When you love sport, you can be a little competitive. Shepparton’s Valley Sport has called on local sporting clubs to compete to save the most lives in the inaugural Goulburn Valley Red 25 Sporting Club Challenge.
Valley Sport supports local grassroot sport and recreation clubs. “Sport in the Goulburn Valley is a passion. We’re hoping to harness this competitive drive and help the Blood Service continue to do great things,” explains Nate Dedman of Valley Sport.
Clubs in everything from cricket to lawn tennis went head to head, with donations counted as ‘runs’ on their Red25 tallies. The comp also attracted some sports personalities, with AFL premiership player Shannon Byrnes and Goulburn Valley-raised basketball player and Melbourne Boomers star Maddie Garrick becoming official ambassadors.
MISSION ACCOMPLISHED Department of Defence personnel have proven for the eighth time that they’re up to the task of defending Australia’s blood supply.
During the Red25 Defence Blood Challenge, one of Australia’s largest blood drives, Navy, Army, Air Force and Defence civilian personnel gave an amazing 6,972 donations in just three months, smashing their 2015 results. That’s up to 20,900 lives saved!
The overall winner by number of donations was Army, but for the first time an award was given for year-on-year growth as well. Navy took out that 2016 title with 38 per cent growth from 2015.
One of the driving forces behind Navy’s donation success was Lieutenant Chris Boardman, who used his previous position as a warrant officer to connect with peers and spread the word.
“Having planned to donate blood for a few years, I finally made the time after my wife required significant blood during the births of our two children, now six and four years old,” said Chris.
Defence Blood Challenge: Navy Lieutenant Chris Boardman in the donation chair with (l-r) Joanne Davey, Air Force Flight Sergeant; Christine Williams, Army Warrant Officer Second Class; and Adam Friederich, Defence civilian.
Ultimately, the winning team was Katamite Cricket Club, but it’s safe to say that all those who competed were winners.
“It’s amazing how just one blood donation can save up to three lives,” said Nate. “That’s a positive power we have as a sporting community — so let’s use it.”
“In my role as Ambassador for the Navy during this year’s challenge, I hoped to help people learn from my own personal experience and get involved in donating blood much sooner in life than I did.”
Well done to all Defence personnel who participated — thank you for defending Australia’s blood supply!
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Happy anniversary: Angela and Justin Evans chose a unique way to celebrate their first year as a newlywed couple — by becoming first-time blood donors together! They made their first blood donations on their first wedding anniversary at the Mackay Donor Centre in Queensland.
First-time donor: Dana Migas has just turned 18 and, with donating blood on her bucket list, lost no time in making her first donation at Cannington Blood Donor Centre in Western Australia. The school-leaver is interested in blood and blood donation so took the opportunity to learn more about working in the field.
Can you help us with our research?Are you a new blood donor? We are keen to hear from you so that we can best meet the needs of those donating for the very first time. Research is a critical component in allowing us to improve our service.
We have partnered with the University of New South Wales and the University of Queensland to understand what motivates new donors to give the gift of life. In early 2017, on the day following their first donation, a selected sample of donors will receive an email from the Blood Service with a link to an online survey. If you receive an email, we hope you will be able to help!
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Exceptional: Regular blood donor Louis Price is the one of three active Australian donors to have the very rare blood type LAN negative.
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In Queensland 69-year-old Yvonne Trapnell must top up a frozen stockpile of her own blood should she ever require a transfusion in the future.
“I’ve been asked to provide blood for people overseas,” says Yvonne.
She is the only known Australian with Rh-null blood. There are 15 donors registered world-wide with this blood type.
With every drop of Rh-null blood accounted for in Australia, Yvonne knows well the risks of living with the nation’s rarest blood type.
“As I’ve gotten older, I do think about it more. You try and take precautions like everybody else.’’
The Blood Service’s National Red Cell Reference Group Manager, Tanya Powley, says there are 115 active donors on the Australian Rare Donor Registry. They represent 0.000004 per cent of the Australian population.
“It’s a huge commitment to be a rare blood donor,” says Tanya.
She explains that the Red Cell Reference Group tests over 2,000 blood samples each year across four national laboraties. Blood matches are found for 90 per cent of those samples.
If a blood match cannot be found from the Australian Rare Donor Registry then the search widens to the international blood registry. Blood from this global list of rare donors is flown to Australian patients about six times a year.
Tanya says it is critical that rare blood donors keep donating regularly to ensure the security of the nation’s rare blood stockpile, and that they remember to donate prior to travel.
What is also important, she says, is to ensure Australia’s rare blood registry is as diverse as its growing multicultural society.
Blood types common in Indian and African communities, for example, are rare in Australia, and finding blood for patients of these backgrounds can be difficult.
Twin brothers from Perth Domenico and Tony Musca share a unique bond — they are the only two active Australian donors with JRA O negative blood.
Their rare blood type has been used to save the life of a Queensland mother and her newborn son.
“The Blood Service will give us a call to see if we can urgently donate because someone is in need of our blood,” says Domenico.
He says his rare blood type has never made him feel vulnerable because he has his brother as a lifeline.
“We’re lucky we’re twins. If one of us is ever in need, the other can donate blood.”
Across Australia there is a tiny group of blood donors whose blood type is so rare they rely on their own frozen blood supply and can
be called to donate at any time for a patient anywhere in the world.
“I was called many years ago to give blood for a patient in South Africa,” says South Australian retiree Louis Price.
Louis is one of three active donors in Australia with the blood type LAN negative.
His donated blood is so precious that it does not end up in the general blood collection pool. His is flown to the Red Cell Reference Group laboratory in Melbourne where it is carefully saved and monitored in state-of-the-art storage.
“It’s a bit unique,” says Louis of his unusual donor profile.
Interesting facts about blood typesThere are 37 different blood group systems, which include the most commonly known ABO and Rh negative and Rh positive groups.
All blood types are categorised by little markers called antigens that coat the surface of red blood cells.
There are more than 300 known antigens.
A blood type is categorised rare if only 1 in 100 people have it and very rare if only 1 in 10,000 people have it.
Scientists are discovering new blood types each year.
One of the newest blood types — called JENU and discovered with the help of Blood Service scientists — was declared a blood type in September 2016 by the International Society for Blood Transfusion Red Cell Working Party.
The immune system of a patient transfused with the wrong blood type will create antibodies to attack the foreign blood. The reaction can be fatal.
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TED JENNINGSRegent Arcade Donor Centre South Australia
10 donations
30 lives saved
A serious motorcycle accident forced Ted to rethink his life. At the top end of his life-changing action list was a commitment to start donating blood. “I don’t think I was living a beneficial life,” says Ted, a registered nurse. A keen marathon runner, one of Ted’s goals for 2017 is completing a gruelling race in Cairns. “It’s going to be a great year.”
IN BLOOD DONOR CENTRES ACROSS THE COUNTRY ORDINARY AUSTRALIANS BEGAN THE YEAR WITH THE EXTRAORDINARY GIFT OF BLOOD. WE ASKED THEM FOR THEIR THOUGHTS ON DONATING AND HOPES FOR 2017.
LISA EBERTRegent Arcade Donor Centre South Australia
21 donations
63 lives saved
Lisa, a research scientist for the Centre for Cancer Biology in Adelaide, says she wishes for good health for her young family in 2017. “I have a good understanding of how blood is used and needed, and how nasty diseases can be — especially cancer — so I’m happy to do anything I can to help.”
PAMELA CREEDMelbourne CBD Donor Centre Victoria
12 donations
36 lives saved
Pamela started donating blood because she wanted to make a difference: “It’s just a little bit of time, yet can make the world of difference to the person who receives it. You never know when you or your family or kids might need it. You do it with the hope someone else might benefit. It’s also great to indulge in party pies four times a year!”
JOEL DOUTCHMelbourne CBD Donor Centre Victoria
33 donations
99 lives saved
“I just want to give back really,” says Joel who donates what’s needed on the day: whole blood, plasma or platelets. “It’s about helping someone else out. I’ve done this since I was 18 or 19 years old. I saw the mobile donor centre at uni and thought, ‘I always wanted to do that’”. His resolution: “I want to keep donating every two weeks and hopefully make 26 donations in 2017”.
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ALANNA GARNSydney Town Hall Donor Centre New South Wales
25 donations
75 lives saved
While a cash-strapped university student, Alanna saw donating blood as an opportunity to do something positive that cost nothing. Now a full-time marketing coordinator, time is much harder to come by but “I donate wherever I am, whenever I can” says Alanna. “I don’t really do New Year’s resolutions, but it’s been on my mind to get back into being a regular blood donor.”
JACKIE BATTENStrathpine Donor Centre Queensland
200 donations
600 lives saved
Jackie first started donating with her husband and they soon began a friendly competition to see who could donate the most. Over the years Jackie has had friends receive blood products and this has inspired her to keep donating. She has just celebrated her 200th donation. Jackie is so far winning the competition with her husband!
CORRY GALE-KILSHAWStrathpine Donor Centre Queensland
1 donation
3 lives saved
This was Corry’s first donation. Corry was inspired to donate blood by all his mates who were blood donors. When he saw a call-out in the media for the need for blood over Christmas, Corry headed to Strathpine Blood Donor Centre to make his contribution. Corry’s first donation went well and he is booked in to donate plasma next time.
MICHAEL AND ANDREW THORPSpringwood Donor Centre Queensland
57 and 50 donations
321 lives saved together
Springwood’s famous “Beard Brothers”, Michael and Andrew, donate platelets and plasma every fortnight. Together, they set time aside over the festive season to donate blood. “It’s a time to give back to the community and donating blood is an easy way to do just that,” they said. Their goal for 2017: not only to grow their beards but their donation tally.
PAUL COPELANDFremantle Donor Centre Western Australia
93 donations
279 lives saved
Working on tugboats means that Paul needs to time his donations for the month he is at home. “For me, donating blood is pretty cruisy and easy,” says Paul who has been donating for 30 years. “I donate because I have girls, and if they had an accident I’d hate for them to not get through it because of a lack of blood.” His goal for 2017: “keep going, try to do my bit, keep healthy and hopefully reach 100 donations.”
SANDI ANASTASIUFremantle Donor Centre Western Australia
101 donations
303 lives saved
“I started donating many years ago, just on a whim,” says Sandi. “Now I keep coming back to see the lovely staff and to give something back because my mum has had a couple of blood transfusions. It only takes an hour of your day”. Sandi’s goal for this year: “to make sure I donate every two weeks and get my full 26 blood donations in for 2017”.
Changing lives: monthly infusions of immunoglobulin help Hayley Teasdale to stay healthy and achieve her dream of helping people through research in neuroscience.
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Hayley Teasdale is 24 years old and has a busy and full life, and a bright future helping people. She also has an illness that could
kill her, without the ongoing assistance of monthly plasma donations.
Originally from country Victoria, the Canberra -based researcher is a doctoral candidate and lecturer at the University of Canberra, specialising in neuroscience research to combat Parkinson’s disease. She also works part-time at the Australian Academy of Science.
Hayley suffered many years of poor health, but it was not until she reached university that she was diagnosed with an immune deficiency. This is a rare disorder that impairs the immune system, making Hayley highly susceptible to infections and viruses. Known as common variable immunodeficiency (CVID), there is no cure for the disorder but sufferers are able to live normal and healthy lives thanks to the immunity given to them by regular transfusions of a medication made from blood plasma.
“I went all through school being undiagnosed. I just accepted it as being normal,” explains Hayley.
Despite a love of basketball, netball and yachting, Hayley often found herself ill during her younger years. But there was a silver lining to all the free time the illness afforded her. Hayley put that time to good use, reading ferociously.
“I had to use my brain because my body was out of action for so much of the time,” she said.
Once a month Hayley attends Canberra’s National Capital Hospital to receive a transfusion of immunoglobulin, made up of plasma antibodies taken from more than a dozen plasma donations. Over a lifetime it will take hundreds of donors to ensure Hayley’s continued good health.
One message Hayley is keen to impart is to encourage people to donate plasma.
“A plasma donation doesn’t just save lives, it changes them. Because of my CVID I was told my chosen career path was not an option for me, and I couldn’t work with people. Because my system is boosted now, I am able to do what I have always wanted, learning every day and helping people.
“So thank you, for helping me to help others, and letting me follow my dreams!”
So thank you, for helping me to help others, and letting me
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Fill the grid so that every column, every row and every 3x3 box contains the numbers 1 to 9.
Thanks to Lovatts Crosswords & Puzzles for supplying these puzzles.
FRESH TOMATO AND BASIL PASTA
© Lovatts Puzzles
2 tablespoons aged balsamic vinegar
Freshly ground black pepper
Parmesan to serve
METHOD
1 Place the halved cherry tomatoes in a large bowl. Crush slightly so that the juices start to flow.
2 Add garlic, olive oil and balsamic vinegar to the bowl of tomatoes and stir through. Season to taste.
3 Add the spaghetti to a large pan of boiling water and cook until al dente.
4 When the pasta is cooked, drain, and immediately add the warm pasta to the tomato mixture. Toss together.
5 Finally, add the fresh basil leaves and toss again.
6 Serve with shaved parmesan.
INGREDIENTS
375g spaghetti
1 punnet of cherry tomatoes, halved
½ cup fresh basil leaves, coarsely chopped
2 garlic gloves, crushed
¼ cup extra virgin olive oil
LUKE’SSTORY
Luke has had cancer twice – once when he was 11 and again at 22. Blood and platelet transfusions helped him survive treatments and surgery.
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