Nothing appeared to be out of the ordinary when Clell Bennett walked into the Red Cross Blood Donation Center, as he’d been doing for decades.
But this time, Bennett was donating his 10th gallon of blood from over his 85-year lifetime. Blood donors only make up about 3% of the population, and donating the amount of blood Bennett has is a feat that’s not commonly achieved.
A donor typically gives 1 pint at a time.
“I just felt like it was one of the little things I could do that would help other people,” Bennett said.
Matt Ochsner, communications director for the Red Cross of Montana, Idaho and East Oregon, said donated blood goes toward accident victims, cancer patients, expecting mothers and “just countless people depend on those blood products every single day.”
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