When Samar Nohra was 11 years old, doctors gave her three months to live.
Two decades later, she’s now thanking blood donors for saving her life and encouraging others to roll up their sleeves to give.
As a child, the 32-year-old Windsor woman was diagnosed with aplastic anemia, a rare disease in which bone marrow stops producing blood cells, causing fatigue, increasing the risk of bleeding and leaving patients vulnerable to infection. During a four-month stay at Sick Kids in Toronto, and for more than a year after that, she received almost 1,000 units of blood and platelets. That’s blood and platelets from almost 1,000 individual donors.
“Just imagine, throughout the entire country, every minute of every day, somebody needs blood,” said Nohra, who spent Saturday morning at Canadian Blood Services Windsor, where a blood drive was dedicated in her honour.
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