Jacqueline
| Winter Springs, FL
80-year-old Jacqueline Nogel is truly a hero. She’s
saved over 3,000 lives! How’d she do it? Jacqueline is
a blood donor. In fact, she’s donated blood and platelets
regularly for the past 59 years. She is one of the top
female donors in the country with more than 120 gallons under her
belt.
When I caught up with Jacqueline in her Central Florida home she
seemed full of energy as she played with her puppy and proudly
showed me photos of her family. She says she feels as healthy
as an ox and that’s why she was shocked when doctors diagnosed her
with lymphoma earlier this year. She says the diagnosis broke
her heart, not because it meant she was sick, but because it meant
she is no longer eligible to give blood.
She says, “I can’t give blood, so I need somebody to take my
place, somebody to move into there, especially the young people
because they’ve got a lot of years ahead of them where they can do
it.”
After 59 years, 120 gallons given and nearly 3,000 lives saved,
Jacqueline Nogel is Florida’s Blood Centers Hero of the Month for
September 2010. Watch
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