Marcos Perez has been donating platelets(血小板) since 1984, right when he became of age to do so. Perez says a transfusion(输血) saved his life when he was born earlier than usual and has been trying to pay it forward ever since. “If someone was there for me, why can’t I be there for someone else?” he said.
That someone was his dad’s working friend, Tony Aguilar. "Back then there was no blood bank," Perez said. "My dad had to go around and ask his family members, my aunts and uncles, cousins, and friends to go donate blood and only one man stepped up to the plate."
Perez has donated 962 times and, every time, his platelets help about three people. His donations alone have touched the lives of 2,888 people. On Thursday, Perez will be rewarded for hitting another record: donating 120 gallons of platelets.
Ashley Frolick, a worker at South Texas Blood & Tissue Center, said that donors like Perez are very important because the need for blood never ends. "Donors like Marcos that come in regularly make sure we have an enough blood supply," Frolick said. "It's really that action that helps patients."
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