Wagga's Margaret Devries has donated to the city's blood bank a staggering 209 times.
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Ms Devries, who works at Calvary Hospital and does triathlons in her spare time, donates plasma every fortnight and has been doing so for almost 30 years.
"I started giving when I was maybe 19 ... there have been a few stops and starts with pregnancies and things like that," she said.
Ms Devries, now aged 48, is a clerk in Calvary's St Elizabeth's ward, which looks after high dependency and ICU patients.
She knows intimately "both sides" of giving blood - from donation to transfusion - and understands how critical it can be in saving someone's life.
"You're giving it and you see people receiving it who are in need ... it's needed constantly," she said.
Her 87-year-old father required three units of life-saving blood just last week.
"Dad's a perfect example. Three units in 24 hours just to get him back up to OK. They need it in theatres. They need it on the ward," Ms Devries said.
Her father, who is currently in hospital and recently underwent a leg amputation, was himself a long-time blood donor who only stopped when the blood bank and his doctors told him he had grown too old.
In the past 12 months Wagga's Lifeblood clinic has received 13,215 donations.
"It's easy. It's rewarding. It's something you can do and one day you might need it yourself," Ms Devries said.
"I just kept coming back. They can't get rid of me."
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