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29 March 2024

Man donates 100 gallons of blood in wife’s memory

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This is a milestone with a difference. A Florida-based man donated 100 gallons of blood in the last 35 years.

Harold Mendenhall, 84, started giving blood on July 7, 1977, according to the Palm Beach Post .

A personal tragedy led him on the nobel cause. Mendenhall started giving blood when his wife Frankie was diagnosed with breast cancer.

But she died seven years later and he claims to have been lost after her demise. Giving blood helped him cope with the loss, he says.

Later he lost his two sons as well and he started donating up to 40 pints a year.

Mendenhall is especially coveted because he donates blood platelets - small cells in the blood which help with clotting.

Last month, he reached 100 US gallons (83 imperial gallons or 666 pints).