By Age 85, She'd Given 23 Gallons Of Blood: 'Because I Can'
Lillian Bloodworth, now 92, says when she first started to give blood, other donors would read her name tag and ask if that was really her name or if it was a gimmick for the blood bank.
by Michael Garofalo
Mar 27, 2020
2 minutes
Lillian Bloodworth lives up to her name, so to speak.
Over the course of nearly five decades, the 92-year-old has donated 23 gallons of blood, starting in the 1960s. (The average person's body contains about 1.5 gallons.)
"When I first started, I would have donors read my name tag and
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