Letter To The Editor

LETTER: Why I'm a Blood Donor

Patch reader Jackie Potenzone shares the story of love and loss that motivated her to give of herself for the health of others and their families.

I read the article in the Patch on the critical shortage of Blood in June and the need for donations. I want to tell you why I donated blood after reading that story, and why I'm now a blood donor. We need to take a time machine back to the summer of 2005. My sister was fighting the end stages of gall bladder cancer. Her name was Mary and she was diagnosed with gallbladder cancer in October of 2003. Her cancer was inoperable but treatable with palliative care. I did not understand what that meant at the time or maybe I did not want to. The summer of 2005; as my mother put it that summer, was the beginning of the end for her. Every weekend my family and I would take the ride to NH to go visit her in the Hospital. With us having small …

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