Each day, Lisa Nash serves her community, but she wouldn’t be able to do her important work as Deputy Mayor of San Mateo without a life-saving donation.
“If that did not happen, if that blood had not been available to me, I would have died,” Nash told CBS News Bay Area. “I remember lying in my hospital bed and thinking my time is not done. I have too much to live for.”
In 2005, Nash was in an accident that resulted in second and third-degree burns on her body.
“I do not feel sorry for myself,” she added. “I just do whatever I can to just enjoy the moment because I really know that in the next second, I may not be here, you know? And so you can complain and you can mope or you can just get on with it and find something good.”
Today, she’s a dedicated mother and public servant, and her only lasting injury, she says, is a hoarse voice. She attributes her time today to the willingness of others to give blood.
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