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Article: 'Please be a blood donor' ; A Devastated wife is urging people to give blood after losing her husband to cancer.
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- Grimsby Telegraph
- Article date:
- April 12, 2008
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A Devastated wife is urging people to give blood after losing her
husband to cancer.
Mark Harrison (38), of Lord Street, Grimsby, died on April 6
after a two-year battle with chronic myeloid leukaemia.
Throughout his illness, he received hundreds of blood
transfusions from donors.
His wife Sarah (36) is urging people to give blood to help people
like Mark.
She said: "Donating blood is such a simple thing and will only
take one hour out of someone's time.
"I have given blood myself and it is the most wonderful feeling.
You leave thinking about how you have helped someone.
"Mark had so many blood transfusions, and just one would often
have come from as many as four people.
"I want to encourage ...