Woodway resident Cindy Potts first donated blood back in 1991 after years of her dad recommending it.

“He would tell me ‘You know you should do this, it’s not bad’,” Potts said.

“I would say ‘No, I don’t like needles’.”

Then one day there was a blood drive at her church, and after her husband convinced her to try it, she found that donating was a lot less scary than she expected.

“I thought ‘I’m going to keep doing this’,” Potts told 25 News.

“It doesn’t hurt — it’s relatively painless. When I found out you can save up to three lives with one donation, to me, it was a win win.”

For the last three decades, Potts has donated countless times and helped more people than she can even imagine.

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