Stratford’s Elsie Seltzer has achieved a milestone she’s been working toward since she was just 17 years old.
Now 72, Seltzer made her 100th blood donation at the Canadian Blood Services donor clinic in the Stratford Rotary Complex Tuesday afternoon.
“I have all kinds of feelings,” Seltzer said while waiting to give blood. “I’m excited. You know, when you check off something that’s on your bucket list, it’s just, ‘Wow, I did that. I really did that.’”
Seltzer said there were two men in her life who encouraged her to give blood. The first was her father, who told her about the difference she could make in people’s lives by regularly giving blood. He took her to her first blood-donor clinic when she was 17 so they could donate together.
“He said, ‘This is how you save somebody’s life. You’re just an ordinary person living an ordinary life, but you’re going to save people’s lives,’” she recalled.
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