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C20 - Wednesday, December 2, 1981 - North Shore News

it’s. fitting that Mollie

Preece’s blood type if O-Rh.

positive.

It’s the type that, in an
emergency, most people
could accept without an
adverse reaction. That's why
it’s often called the universal
donor.

And if anyone in the
Lower Mainland could be
singled out as. a universal
donor, it’s Preece, a 52 year

old practical nurse at
Nancouver General
Hospital.

Talk about giving of
yourself.

Most adult women have [0
to 12 pints of blood in their
bodies. She has donated 141
‘pints over the past 34 years.

And that figure. is five
pints more than Red Cross
Society guidelines say she
should. have been able to
give. You must be 18 to give
blood and you must limit
donations to four annually.
So, at 52, the maximum
number of donations
theoretically is 136.

“She slipped in five extra
somewhere along the line,”
said Rick O’Brien, director
of public relations for the
BC-Yukon Division of the
Red Cross. “We can. literally
set our watches by Mollie.
Every three months to the
day she’s walking through
the doors.” -

“It’s true, I never miss.
And I did go in'a few extra
times when they called me in
an emergency,” Preece said.
“But at that time ‘they
‘weren't too particular about
the three-month waiting
peri

What's more many more
than 141 British Columbians
are walking around with
some of Preece’s blood
coursing through their veins.

That’s because today
patients are rarely given
whole blood. Instead, the

‘many

\ unique gitttor

blood is broken down into as
many as five different

_components and patients are

only given the particular
component they need.

“The old phrase, ‘Give a
pint and save a life,’ is
outdated,” said O’Brien.
“Nowadays one pint of blood
probably affects four or five
lives.

“For example, we might
take your platelets and give
them to a leukemia patient
to offset the effects of
chemotherapy. We might
take your albumin and give it
to a burn victim to restore
lost fluids. And we might
take your Factor. 8 and give
it to a hemophiliac to
provide his blood with the
clotting factor it doesn’t
have.”

With the simple logic of

the truly charitable, Preece °

says she gives blood just for

the feeling of satisfaction —

that comes from helping
people. ;
The item most

prominently displayed on |

her living room wall is a
framed plaque. It reads:

The Canadian Red Cross
Society has the honor to
commend you for your gift
of more than 100 donations
of your blood. Your
dedication and devotion
over the years place you in a
select group of Canadians
who give of themselves so
that others may live.

You will never know how
many have been saved but.
you have the assurance that
of your fellow
Canadians owe life and
health to you.

“You could be saving a
life, you know. That’s how I
look at it,” she said. “And
they’re always short of
donors.”

It’s a chronic problem.
O'Brien said the Red Cross
needs.to collect about 2,800

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He added that Christmas
and New Year’s are two of
the most critical times of the
year for the blood bank.

“Our supplies suffer
because people are
preoccupied and are too
busy to donate. At the same
time there are increased
demands on the blood bank
because accidents increase,”
he said. “A lot of people
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