WABI TV5 is asking for your help to reach our goal of 500 donations of life-saving blood during the month of December.
We’ve still got quite a way to go.
Bangor City Councilor Clare Davitt took time to donate last week. She says giving blood is in *her* blood.
Clare Davitt’s first knowledge of blood donation is personal. She says, “I’m adopted. My parents had a daughter who died when she was nine and I was one. She had cystic fibrosis which kids with CF require a lot of blood transfusions.”
Her sister’s disorder was a major impact on Davitt’s blood donor story.
But the influence didn’t stop there.
Next was her mother. Davitt says, “She was a Neonatologist. So, she dealt with saving preemies here at Eastern Maine.” She saw the work her mother did and the consumption of blood it took to keep some of these babies alive.
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