Arm Dealer

“When Harrison was 14, he got sick and had to have one of his lungs removed. The grueling process involved a three-month hospital stay, 100 stitches and nearly two gallons of donated blood, he told NPR. It inspired him to donate his own later — despite his aversion to needles.” James Harrison got over his aversion to needles. That’s a good thing because his own “plasma contained a rare and precious antibody called anti-D.” And he gave a lot of it during the course of his life — so much that he acquired the nickname: The Man with the Golden Arm: NPR: James Harrison, whose blood donations saved over 2 million babies, has died.