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Speaker 1: We are speaking about something we all have and when

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Speaker 1: you donate it, it's a privilege to do so. That

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Speaker 1: is blood.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we've been talking about it for the last couple

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Speaker 2: of weeks and we've been meeting a whole variety of

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Speaker 2: people who have required blood to save their lives. I

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Speaker 2: met someone who's in a car accident who needed seventy

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Speaker 2: liters of blood, which is about seventy donations.

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Speaker 3: I met a very very brave little girl and overly

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Speaker 3: who has been battling childhood cancer for a lot of

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Speaker 3: her life, to be honest, and it's amazing how much

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Speaker 3: she has relied on other people.

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Speaker 2: And I think we don't realize how far blood goes.

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Speaker 2: I think a lot of people think it's just for

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Speaker 2: like car incidents or trauma, but it like for people

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Speaker 2: battling cancer. It's very important for people who are in accidents.

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Speaker 2: And Clint, you've met someone special too.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Well today we're going to meet Jess. Jess Taylor.

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Speaker 1: Now she's thirty four and she has been a blood

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Speaker 1: donor most of her life, so she's given blood or

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Speaker 1: plasma thirty one times. But earlier this year her life

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Speaker 1: changed because she wired blood after emergency c section. She

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Speaker 1: hem reached really badly and she lost more than four leaders.

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Speaker 1: And this is her story. Jess. It's lovely to see you,

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Speaker 1: love her, to meet you. Thanks for being with us,

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Speaker 1: Thank you for having me. Hey, we share something pretty cool,

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Speaker 1: we do, indeed, and that is the fact that we

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Speaker 1: are Our blood type is own negative, and every time

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Speaker 1: I go to give blood, I'm reminded by the beautiful

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Speaker 1: staff at life Blood that it's so so rare. Do

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Speaker 1: you get the same sort of buzz or did you

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Speaker 1: when you gave blood? Oh?

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Speaker 4: Absolutely. Everybody is so sweet and so engaging, and they

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Speaker 4: make it as easy as possible to go through.

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Speaker 1: Because our blood type is universal, so we can help everyone,

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Speaker 1: which is really cool. How many times or how regularly

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Speaker 1: were you giving blood initially?

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Speaker 4: So I started off donating whole blood and you can

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Speaker 4: do that three months, and then I moved to donating

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Speaker 4: plasma and platelets, which you can do more regularly for.

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Speaker 1: You personally, life changed pretty suddenly. What it was twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty five so earlier, Yeah, six months of the Yeah,

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Speaker 1: what happened?

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Speaker 4: Yeah? So, while I was giving birth to my third child,

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Speaker 4: I ended up having an emergency cesarean at eight centimeters

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Speaker 4: dilated because we just just wasn't going very well, and

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Speaker 4: that's fine. Things change. And when that was done and

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Speaker 4: I got back onto the maternity ward, I had a

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Speaker 4: significant postpartum hemorrhage, so they took me back to theater

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Speaker 4: and as a result, they weren't able to stop the bleed,

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Speaker 4: so they had to do an emergency His directed me

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Speaker 4: at the same time. So during that process I received

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Speaker 4: thirteen units of whole blood because I'd lost four and

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Speaker 4: a half liters of my own blood volume, which is

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Speaker 4: almost your entire blood volume.

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Speaker 1: So in that very moment, your life changed.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, what.

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Speaker 1: Was that like emotionally for you?

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Speaker 4: It was a lot. I didn't anticipate waking up in

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Speaker 4: the ICU and still having tubes and everything everywhere.

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Speaker 1: I mean, what was meant to be one of the

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Speaker 1: most beautiful and probably still is in many respects a

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Speaker 1: beautiful moment for you, welcoming your third child is yeah, suddenly,

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Speaker 1: you know, really really horrendous.

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Speaker 4: The part for me that really hit home was when

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Speaker 4: I was having a conversation with the obstetrician a couple

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Speaker 4: of days later, after I got out of the ICU

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Speaker 4: the question, how bad did it really get? Because I

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Speaker 4: really sort of wanted to understand how I'm well was

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Speaker 4: I in the end? And I never thought anyone would

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Speaker 4: say this to me in my life, but he said

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Speaker 4: to me, I tried really hard to die that night.

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Speaker 4: Oh yes, So that will stay with me forever. And

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Speaker 4: I can't help but think that my partner could have

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Speaker 1: Okay, So the beautiful part of this is that it's

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Speaker 1: in many respects of full circle moment for you, because

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Speaker 1: as somebody who was donating blood so regularly own negative blood,

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Speaker 1: which is universal, suddenly you need own negative blood back.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: What was that like to comprehend, to comprehend what's happening?

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Speaker 4: It was really humbling. It really sort of made me

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Speaker 4: think that, wow, like this is why I donated for

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Speaker 4: these previous years, was so that I could give somebody

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Speaker 4: else this opportunity that now I've been able to have.

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Speaker 4: I'm here today because of blood donors, And that is

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Speaker 4: a very powerful statement.

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Speaker 1: What a gift that is. What would you say to

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Speaker 4: Morning if you've never done it, just give it a crack,

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Speaker 4: don't you try? It is something that I've always said

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Speaker 4: to people, it is so incredibly easy. You can just

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Speaker 4: give it a shot. And if it's not your thing,

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Speaker 4: you gave it a try, but it will become something

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Speaker 4: that you will want to keep doing. It's just fun.

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Speaker 1: Thank you so much for being so open about your

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Speaker 1: experience this morning, and give our love to your beautiful

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Speaker 1: family as well.

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Speaker 4: Thank you.

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Speaker 3: Good on you.

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Speaker 1: Jest. That was Jess Taylor, thirty four years of age

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Speaker 1: and required She required blood to save her life.

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Speaker 2: I think I think a lot of people don't realize

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Speaker 2: that childbirth is a time when people require blood and

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Speaker 2: what we all have is liquid gold in our bodies

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Speaker 2: that we can donate. Clinton.

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Speaker 1: You went yesterday, Yeah, I went off to Lifeblood in Camberwell.

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Speaker 1: The team there was sensational. A shout out to them

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Speaker 1: because they are big Nova listeners.

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Speaker 3: Get your get your flavored milk.

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Speaker 1: I got my nippies strawberry milk. You have a little

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Speaker 1: party part well and maybe a little tim tam as well. Look,

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Speaker 1: it's I mean, do you feel it after? I know

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Speaker 1: that it can be a lot for people to go

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Speaker 1: in and get it done, but it's easy also, it's

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Speaker 1: easy and the staff are just sensation.

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Speaker 3: If you get anything out of just the story. She

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Speaker 3: was a donut for years and all of a sudden,

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Speaker 3: just overnight, she's the one that needed it.

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Speaker 2: That's it. I think you need it when you least expectly.

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Speaker 2: And the other thing is clear. Now you've donated blood,

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Speaker 2: so you should get a text if it looks like

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Speaker 2: forty eight hours telling you exactly where your blood has gone, exactly.

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Speaker 1: To the hospital, could be, could be anywhere around Australia,

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Speaker 1: not just Victoria, but Australia.

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Speaker 2: That's so cool. Good job.

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Speaker 3: Every eighteen seconds someone needs blood. You can help become

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Speaker 3: a life saver to a stranger. SE's blood supply or

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Speaker 3: visit lifeblood dot com dot are you to book your donation.

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Speaker 1: Lauren Lauren wake up feeling good.

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