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Tammy Cunnington knows all too well the importance of bloods donors.
When Cunnington was just six, she underwent 17 surgeries and received multiple blood transfusions after being struck by a plane at a Ponoka air show in 1982.
“It was very much a life or death situation. I was on the edge, and my heart actually stopped twice in the ambulance on the way to the hospital. The only thing that kept me going … was blood transfusions,” said Cunnington said, who represented Canada at the 2016 Paralympic Summer Games.
The incident left her a paraplegic with the full use of her right arm, core and shoulders.
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