For years, Peter and Mary Ann Gordon of Portland have known the importance of giving blood, but it wasn’t until overcoming the scariest of circumstances that Mary Ann opted to donate blood for the first time.

“I had never given blood and am fearful every time someone has taken blood from me…until I got COVID last March,” Mary Ann Gordon said.

It was after overcoming her symptoms from the virus that she first heard about survivors donating convalescent plasma.

“I thought I have to put my big girl pants on and get out there and do that because I can save lives,” she said.

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