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Born 15 weeks early, together Rhys and Tay needed 10 blood transfusions to survive. Please book in your next donation to get a biscuit and save three lives like theirs.

Visit donateblood.com.au or call 13 14 95 today.

THEY’LL GROW UP TOGETHER.YOU’LL GET A BISCUIT ALL TO YOURSELF.

01 — WHEN THANK YOU IS NOT ENOUGH

03 — GETTING TO KNOW YOU

05 — FACES OF DONATION

06 — RED25

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PROTECTING LIVES: THERE’S AN APP FOR THAT

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Brett Goodban and his family: Brett needed over 240 blood transfusions to save his life and has told his story to help thank donors during National Blood Donor Week.

When death came knocking on Brett Goodban’s door, he told it to ”get stuffed” — with the help of more than 240 units

of donated blood components.

The Cairns dad had experienced a rough year in 2014, so decided to take his wife and three kids on a family holiday to Tokyo for a white Christmas.

Brett had started to feel unwell on the trip to Tokyo. He dismissed it as nothing major.

“I didn’t notice myself feeling sick at all,” he said. “I was a bit tired, obviously, trying to get three kids on a plane. But being a typical bloke it would take a lot more than that to take me out.”

Unbeknown to Brett, the 42-year-old had contracted a rare strain of influenza — and it began to take its toll on him just a couple of days into the Tokyo holiday.

“A couple of days into it I was starting to get short of breath, I couldn’t make it up the stairs,” he said.

“I didn’t know what was about to hit me, but it happened pretty quick.”

Brett’s lungs had started to fill with blood. Not knowing what was happening, he made the critical decision to visit a doctor. It was at this consultation that Brett’s life would change forever.

“I sat up and looked at the doctor, had a huge cough and fell dead,” he said.

“When I coughed, five massive clots had travelled into my heart and shut it down.”

Brett Goodban died. He was then resuscitated and placed on life support. He had cheated death once, but knew it would continue to circle him. This was just the beginning of a lengthy battle to stave away the reaper.

“Before I died, I remember saying to my wife: ‘I don’t care how it happens, I don’t care whether I’m dead or alive — I want to go home.’”

Those words — essentially a dying man’s wish — were honoured in the commitment that followed: 250 emails and 1,000 phone calls made between three hospitals in two countries.

CareFlight, a critical care aeromedical retrieval service, transported Brett to Queensland, achieving many firsts of its own due to the need to haul Brett back to Australia attached to a large amount of life-support equipment.

Brett was taken immediately to the Prince Charles Hospital. He had made it this far, but the challenge facing doctors was to stop Brett’s blood from clotting. It was during this treatment that Brett began to bleed internally, haemorrhaging blood in a life-threatening manner.

“I needed, from what I was told, over 247 bags of blood,” Brett said.

Through the combination of CareFlight’s retrieval of Brett, the clinical support offered at Tokyo University and Prince Charles hospitals, and the work of volunteer blood donors, Brett is now on the road to recovery and is able to spend time with his three young boys and wife.

“It’s really strange to be in a position in your life where ‘thank you’ is not enough,” he said.

“How do you look 200 people in the face and say ‘thank you, you saved my life?’”

It’s a question Brett recently discovered the answer to, as the face of our 2016 National Blood Donor Week, seen by thousands, not just hundreds, of volunteer blood donors.

A video telling Brett’s story was shown at recognition ceremonies around Australia, and is also available online at donateblood.com.au

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Donors like you are the lifeblood of our organisation. We collect over 27,000 donations every week to meet the constant demand for life-saving products, and our only source is volunteer donors. To make sure our donors keep coming back, researchers at the Blood Service investigate ways to improve the donation experience and keep our donors happy and healthy.

Australia is one of the few blood services in the world to have established a Donor Research program and our team, led by Dr Tanya Davison, includes researchers with diverse backgrounds in psychology, public health, biostatistics and economics. Recent research by this team has shown that directly addressing a first-time donor’s anxiety in the period leading up to their first appointment can increase the chance they will follow through with their donation.

Beating the butterfliesWhen a first-time donor makes an appointment to give blood, their initial good intentions can give way to “butterflies” as their donation approaches—and sometimes they don’t follow through with their donation as a result. A new strategy devised by our Donor Research team is designed to help donors manage their anxiety through this critical period of their donation career.

The novel approach is based on research led by Dr Barbara Masser (Honorary Principal Research Fellow at the Blood Service and Associate Professor at the University of Queensland). Barbara explains:

“There is a voice at the back of new donors’ heads saying ‘You don’t have to do this. You could just not do it, that’s OK’. So we’re trying to intervene in that period and say ‘We know. We recognise that you are thinking all these things. It’s not that unusual, and here are some things you can to do to manage those doubts.”

We have now developed a range of materials to assist new donors. Using an internationally respected research design, we tested the materials on over 3,600 new donors. The outcomes of this study told us that a brochure emailed to a new donor, in combination with a phone call, produced the best result, so this will be the basis of our new business practice.

Feeling great when you donateMost of our donors feel fine during and after their donation. But a few (10 per cent of first-time donors, less than 2 per cent of donors overall) experience symptoms of dizziness, blurry vision, feel hot and sweaty and even faint, either during or after their donation. In short, these symptoms are caused by a drop in blood pressure and a few simple techniques, such as drinking two cups of water immediately before donating or tensing the large muscle groups in the body, may help prevent symptoms.

Our Donor Research team is enlisting the help of donors and staff at the Liverpool and Parramatta donor centres to test how we can most effectively teach our donors how to feel great every time they donate.

“We want to help our donors take control over the way they feel during a donation— the happier they are, the happier we are,” says Amanda Thijsen who is leading this research project.

We value all our donors, and hope to retain these valuable relationships over time. Our Donor Research team is constantly working to ensure that each of our donors stays happy and healthy throughout their donation career.

If you have questions about research at the Blood Service, please visit donateblood.com.au/research

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First-time donor: Kelly Wilson (second from right), with her parents Marnie and Robert and sister Bianca, overcame her fear of needles to make her first donation at Perth Blood Donor Centre. The Kalgoorlie family were in Perth for a long weekend and dropped in to donate and provide support.

400 donations and last out the door: Walter Runciman recently made his 400th donation at the Bourke Street Blood Donor Centre. Walter was also the final person to donate at the centre before it moved to the new Melbourne CBD Blood Donor Centre in May. Congratulations Walter!

All you need is blood: Adelaide couple Rosemary and John Garrett celebrate 50 years of marriage this year. That’s not all they share. John has made in excess of 400 blood and plasma donations. And Rosemary has received blood as part of her cancer treatment. John has so far saved more than 1200 lives: “To me, donating blood is like a community service; people need blood”.

ANAEMIA AWARENESS FUELS BLOOD DRIVEVery few people understand the constant need for blood more than thalassaemia and sickle cell anaemia sufferers and their families.

People with these conditions — which affect the production of red blood cells and can cause life-threatening anaemia — often need regular blood transfusions just to stay healthy.

That’s why the Thalassaemia and Sickle Cell Society of Australia (TaSCSA) is teaming up with Red25 to launch a four-month blood drive encouraging its members, their families and friends to donate blood and support their loved ones.

The blood drive was launched on 19 June 2016, World Sickle Cell Day, and culminates with the society’s 40th anniversary in November. TaSCSA is a not-for-profit, community-based organisation that supports Australians affected by genetic blood conditions such as thalassaemia, sickle cell anaemia and other haemoglobin disorders.

Agnes Nsofwa is secretary of the society. Her daughter, Mapalo, suffers from sickle cell anaemia and needs regular transfusions.

“At TaSCSA our patients range from babies to children, like my daughter, right up to adults in their fifties, and blood transfusions are the number one treatment option for managing their conditions,” Agnes said.

“We are hoping that through this platform we will be able to give the public more understanding and also encourage them to take the first step in knowing their own medical history.”

Dru Mills, National Partnership Manager at the Blood Service, added: “This will mark an important partnership between the TaSCSA and the Blood Service as 28 per cent of all blood donations go towards people suffering from blood diseases”.

“It is the hope that we can raise awareness of these blood conditions as well as make sure to always have a strong, steady supply of blood for people like Mapalo.”

Agnes started a blood drive to help people like her daughter Mapalo, who has sickle cell anaemia and needs regular transfusions.

IT’S IN THEIR BLOOD: EMERGENCY WORKERS Emergency services workers across the country recently started a life-saving blood drive just in time to help combat a traditional drop-off in donor numbers over winter.

At the South Australian launch leaders from the state’s emergency services converged at the Royal Flying Doctor Service’s (RFDS) Adelaide Airport hangar to kick off the 2016 Emergency Services Challenge.

The challenge runs from 1 June to 31 August and sees emergency services groups from across the country vying for the highest blood count.

The challenge was launched nationally on the first day of winter — a great time of need for the Blood Service as donation cancellations peak with donors hit hard by the flu and colds.

“We are hoping that through the Emergency Services Challenge and the example of these amazing men and women, who save lives on a regular basis through their profession, that more Australians will be encouraged to donate blood,” Blood Service Donor Services Manager SA/NT, Lawry Sancilio said.

Car accident survivor Jack Annear said he wouldn’t be alive today without the 17 litres of blood he received from 48 generous strangers and the life-saving work of the RFDS, police, SES and paramedics who saved his life at the triple-fatality accident.

“I would never have made it to the Royal Adelaide Hospital without the generosity of blood donors and the swift response of emergency services workers, who just seem to keep on giving,” said Jack.

Survivor: Jack Annear, whose life was saved by emergency workers and blood donors, was there to celebrate the launch of the Emergency Services Challenge.

MORE THAN ONE WAY TO SAVE LIVESWhen saving lives is part of your day-to-day work, joining a life-saving challenge of a different kind is another way to support your seriously ill patients.

Forty-six members of the Sunshine Coast Private Hospital did just this when the Sunshine Coast Mobile Donor Centre visited last month.

They joined health services workers across the country to donate blood as part of the Blood Service’s inaugural Red25 Health Services Blood Challenge.

This competitive crew was keen to ensure the blood supply never runs dry! With many of the team witnessing the need for blood daily, they know the impact it can have on patients’ lives.

Quality Manager Kerry Willcocks said: “We understand the importance of this priceless resource for our patients in their journey to recovery. Helping to fulfil the demand for blood is our way of assisting the community and our patients.”

First-timers to the Red25 program, hospital staff embraced the opportunity to join the blood drive and strengthen the connection between donors and patients. They experienced first-hand the satisfaction of knowing their blood donation will help save the lives of three patients—and perhaps someone they’ll meet!

WA RESOURCES SECTOR DIGS DEEPBHP Billiton, Chevron, INPEX and Woodside are pooling their resources in a challenge to see how many lives they can save by donating blood in 2016.

These four companies are already a part of the Blood Service’s Red25 program, a unique movement in which groups and organisations around Australia unite to save lives through blood donations. Last year their employees donated 1,204 times benefitting the lives of 3,612 patients in Western Australia.

This year the four companies have decided on some friendly competition to up the ante and see if they can save even more lives.

“The Resources Challenge is a wonderful opportunity for the resources sector to help the Australian Red Cross Blood Service save the lives of Western Australian patients,” said BHP Billiton spokesperson Rebecca Fraurud.

“Our employees are up for the challenge and enjoy taking part in this worthwhile cause each year.”

Blood Service spokesperson, Yvonne Stickland, said “The resources sector already makes such an outstanding contribution in Western Australia, and now they will play a vital role in ensuring we have enough blood for our patients here”.

Saving lives at Sunshine Coast Private Hospital: Assistant Director of Nursing, Kathy Carfantan; Quality Manager, Kerry Willcocks and Theatre Orderly, Tim Deens.

Resources sector drive to donate blood: Steve Perrett, Woodside; Kristy Lee Morris, INPEX; Demi Okely, BHP Billiton and Candy Lethridge, Chevron.

Award winners: Cameron Montgomery (second from left) and his colleagues at Ballarat City Council participated in this year’s inaugural Councils Blood Challenge.COUNCILS

SUPPORT THEIR COMMUNITIES WITH NEW BLOOD DRIVEFor the first time councils across Australia have competed to see which council can save the most lives by donating blood.

Ballarat City Council were one of the top-ranking Victorian councils for donations in the inaugural challenge. Safety Manager and Red25 Coordinator, Cameron Montgomery, says the council has worked hard to create a collective goal of saving lives together.

“Ballarat City Council has some of the most amazing employees who are willing to actively participate in programs such as the Councils Blood Challenge. It has also created camaraderie amongst the employees by encouraging them to donate together in pairs and teams,” Cameron said.

Cameron recently marked his own milestone of 100 donations. He and his wife were first inspired to give blood when their daughter was befriended by another youngster while in hospital for an operation.

“The boy’s mother advised that he was in hospital as he needed blood transfusions and that was it, both my wife and I started donating after that.”

“It is one of the easiest things you can do to help someone else and it doesn’t take long at all. Besides it might be you or someone special to you that might need blood one day. Oh, and of course, they have the best biscuit!”

To join Red25 or learn more, call 1300 886 524 or visit donateblood.com.au/red25

Repairing Scarlett’s broken heart: South Australian grandad Bob Glovitch made his 517th life-saving blood donation on 14 June 2016, World Blood Donor Day, under the watchful eye of his biggest new-found fan — eight-month-old Scarlett Wallis. Scarlett recently received multiple red cell transfusions, plasma and platelets during and after four-hour open-heart surgery.

Shark-attack survivor: Sean Pollard, who needed seven units of blood after he was attacked by a shark while surfing in Western Australia, thanked donors during National Blood Donor Week. His brother Angus (pictured with Sean) and mum Kylie donated blood during their visit to Bunbury Blood Donor Centre.

Melbourne Cup winner and blood donor star: when regular donor Bruce Dalton visited to donate plasma, he brought Australia’s most prestigious horse-racing trophy with him! Bruce is part-owner of Prince of Penzance, winner of the 2015 Melbourne Cup. Staff at the Bundaberg Blood Donor Centre cheered him on as he raced towards the finish line of donation number 130.

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Twenty years ago the Australian Red Cross Blood Service as a national body was formed. Up until then we were eight separate state and territory

Red Cross blood banks.

It was way back in 1929 when the Red Cross in Victoria established Australia’s first major blood transfusion service, with Dr Lucy Bryce as honorary director, calling for volunteers to freely give blood to help others. For decades after, separate state-based Red Cross blood banks managed the collection and supply of blood across the country.

Former secretary general of Australian Red Cross, Jim Carlton AO (who sadly died late last year), led the modernisation of the organisation and its separate blood services to create the Australian Red Cross Blood Service on 24 January 1996.

Ours is a fascinating history. During World War II the state blood services provided serum (plasma without clotting proteins) for troops in the Middle East and Europe, and fresh whole blood for troops in the Pacific. Australia’s first mobile blood bank made its maiden journey in Western Australia in 1942.

In the early years we used direct transfusion and then from the late 1930s glass bottles were used to store blood, but in the 1960s we started using plastic bags when collecting blood. This revolutionised the way we did things and how blood and blood products were used, as it facilitated separating blood into red blood cells, platelets and plasma. In 1985 Australia became the first country to screen the entire blood supply for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), and in 1990 the second country in the world to screen all blood for the hepatitis C virus.

We have come a long way in 20 years. Dr Robert Hetzel headed the new national organisation and had the huge task of bringing together eight separate state and territory services with significantly different management structures and systems. For the first time blood could be transferred between states to where it was needed most.

We’ve come a long way — from glass collection bottles to plastic bags to frozen blood — and now we’ve marked 20 years as a national organisation: (clockwise from bottom) founder of the first Australian blood service Dr Lucy Bryce (right, in 1943); WWII blood transfusion, New Guinea, 1945; a mobile donor centre; glass v. plastic bags in the 1960s. Below, Dr Robert Hetzel and John Hasker, CEO and chairman of the new national organisation.

A mammoth achievement was the National Blood Management System, a $35 million computer system to track all blood donations nationally. In 2000 Australia was among the leading countries to introduce additional high sensitivity nucleic acid testing for HIV and hepatitis C.

When Australian governments formed the National Blood Authority in 2003, it meant the Blood Service no longer needed to negotiate individually with states and territories for funding. Jennifer Williams took on the role of Chief Executive in 2006 and further drove national consolidation by streamlining donor management and production systems.

Earlier in 2016—the year of our 20th anniversary—Jennifer Williams handed over to our new Chief Executive, Shelly Park, and we now begin a new era for the Blood Service. Our national organisation is an impressive operation and we are on the path to becoming one of the top 25 per cent of manufacturers in the international blood sector.

It’s heart-warming and rewarding when you think about all those Australians whose lives have been vastly improved, and often saved, thanks to the outstanding work done by the Blood Service and our loyal donors.

As we pause to celebrate 20 years as a national organisation and over 80 years of making blood available for those in need, it’s also time to acknowledge your precious gift. From the beginning volunteer donors have made a difference to people’s lives and we cannot continue our vital work without you.

Happy anniversary everyone.

Our super heroes: (l-r) Adelaide children Angus Bond and Gabrielle Waddington suffer a rare disorder requiring a lifetime of blood transfusions. They want to thank Australian blood donors for saving their lives.

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Gabrielle and her twin sister Jasmine were born premature in 2002 and were diagnosed with DBA at three months. Sadly, Jasmine passed away at five months due to associated complications.

Gabrielle is now in Year 7 at an Adelaide school. Her father says to look at her she appears a normal teenager. But, he says, her journey thus far has been thwart with many visits to the intensive care unit, including heart surgery, constant blood testing, regular organ testing and scans,

nightly injections and 153 blood transfusions in her short lifetime.

Regular transfusions are not a process Gabrielle nor her family enjoy but they understand it gives her life and are pinning their hopes on a cure being found.

In April Jamahl trekked 245 kilometres along the New South Wales coast from Coffs Harbour to Byron Bay, raising vital research funds for the Captain Courageous Foundation to help his daughter and children like her.

By the time Adelaide schoolchildren Gabrielle Waddington and Angus Bond reach their 21st birthdays they will have received more than

500 life-saving blood transfusions.

The pair share an extraordinary relationship: they are among approximately 800 people known worldwide to be suffering the rare bone marrow failure disorder Diamond Blackfan Anaemia (DBA).

“Without blood donors Gabrielle wouldn’t be here,” says her father Jamahl.

“Donations are keeping her alive in the hope that we can find a cure so that she won’t have to rely on blood transfusions for the rest of her life.”

Blood Service national transfusion specialist Dr Ben Saxon says this life-threatening disorder without a cure affects Gabrielle and Angus’ ability to make red blood cells.

“Ninety per cent of DBA patients will require regular or semi-regular transfusions to stay alive and healthy,” he says.

Dr Saxon is aware of six DBA patients in South Australia over the past 20 years and estimates no more than 60 Australia wide.

Every month, almost since birth, 13-year-old Gabrielle and eight-year-old Angus spend anywhere from four to six hours transfusing blood at the Adelaide Women’s and Children’s Hospital.

Angus had a short break from transfusions after his body was able to produce red blood cells, but he was forced to return to the monthly procedures after his levels dropped and he became unwell again.

A complication of regular blood transfusions is a dangerous build-up of iron in the liver, heart and pancreas. Both children take medication to control iron levels and to avoid organ failure requiring organ donation, a high-risk procedure for DBA sufferers.

Part of their ongoing treatment also includes monthly blood tests in addition to transfusions, an MRI test each year to scan for iron build-up, quarterly sight and hearing tests and an annual heart ECG.

“It’s just second nature to her now,” says Jamahl of his daughter’s time-consuming and sometimes painful medical routine for survival.

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The not-for-profit group was founded by Angus’ mum Jessica Bond — after Angus was diagnosed with DBA — to fund cutting-edge research into treatments and cures for children suffering the disease. The foundation has established Australia’s first national collaborative research program across five states into bone marrow failure disorder.

Jessica says due to the rarity of these disorders, global research dollars are very limited.

“However, whilst these diseases are rare, unlocking the cause could not only lead to a cure for these courageous children, but potentially a breakthrough for more common blood diseases such as leukaemia.”

Until then, children like Gabrielle and Angus will have to rely on the generous spirit of complete strangers — the 500,000 active Australian blood-donor heroes who keep donating — a sacred lifeline for these children.

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It’s one of the world’s most recognised symbols, but many people don’t know the red cross emblem’s protective significance during war. Now with a new Australian Red Cross app everyone can help to protect the emblem that protects lives.

Did you know that during conflict, personnel and facilities bearing the red cross, red crystal and red crescent emblems are protected under the Geneva Conventions? Their meanings are simple: don’t shoot — we are not part of the fight and we are here to give assistance.

Yet over a hundred Red Cross and Red Crescent people in conflict zones have been injured or killed in recent years. Some were attacked by fighters who misunderstood, or were unaware of, the emblems’ significance. This is why Australian Red Cross works to prevent unauthorised use of the emblems. And now, for the first time, you can help us by using your smartphone.

‘The Emblem’ is a new app that enables people to let us know about emblem misuse by taking a photo and sending it to us via the app.

DR BLAKE AND THE BLOODY CROSSWhen George Adams, producer of the ABC drama series The Doctor Blake Mysteries, incorporated a bloody version of the emblem into their advertising, it was intended as a nod towards the title character’s history as an army medic. It wasn’t until they were contacted by Red Cross that they learned of the emblem’s wider significance.

“Everyone recognised it was an honest mistake and certainly wasn’t in the spirit of the show,” says George. “We were genuinely horrified we had in any way put the Red Cross in such a situation where the emblem could be denigrated or belittled.”

“People and businesses can be very surprised when they find out — many assume the red

cross is a trademark or a logo,” says Yvette Zegenhagen National Manager of IHL, Movement Relations and Advocacy at the Australian Red Cross.

The red cross is a universal emblem of protection in armed conflict, under international and domestic law. The new Emblem app will help increase awareness of the emblem’s significance.

“We’re hoping to get the message out there that these emblems should only be used for one purpose, and that everyone knows and respects that purpose. If we want them to be respected in times of conflict, they must be widely understood and protected in times of peace,” Yvette said.

To download the app go to the App Store or find out more at redcross.org.au/ the-emblem-app

INGREDIENTS

1.5kg butternut pumpkin

Olive oil

1 large onion

3 cloves garlic

1 carrot, diced

1 stick of celery, chopped

1 potato, chopped

1 litre vegetable

or chicken stock

2 tablespoons chives, chopped

Black pepper

Sour cream

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Fill the grid so that every column, every row and every 3x3 box contains the numbers 1 to 9.

Thanks to Lovatts Crosswords & Puzzles for supplying these puzzles.

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METHOD

1 Preheat the oven to 170°C. Peel pumpkin, remove seeds and cut roughly into wedges. Place on baking tray and drizzle with olive oil. Bake for about an hour, until soft.

2 Meanwhile, heat some olive oil in a large saucepan over medium heat and add onion, garlic, carrot, celery and potato and cook for approximately 10 minutes until soft.

3 Add stock to saucepan and simmer with vegetables for about 10 minutes until reduced slightly.

4 When pumpkin is ready, add to saucepan.

5 Blend the soup until smooth. Add more stock if you prefer a thinner consistency. Season with salt and pepper.

6 You can serve with a little sour cream spooned on top of the soup and sprinkled with fresh snipped chives.

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