June 3, 2022

“Over the years, those who have seemed to me to be the most happy, contented, and fulfilled have always been the people who have lived the most outgoing and unselfish lives.”

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“Over the years, those who have seemed to me to be the most happy, contented, and fulfilled have always been the people who have lived the most outgoing and unselfish lives.”

Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II 

Platinum Jubilee

2022 

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Margot’s father Yaser talks to donors who have given blood 100 times or platelets 250 times at the first NHSBT Blood Donor Recognition Ceremony since COVID

Millennium Gloucester Hotel, London 27 April 2022

Introduction

It’s a very great privilege and honour to have been asked to speak today.

We haven’t met before, but given you’re at this event, I know you all to be very special people. And by addressing you here, I feel as though I have been given an opportunity to try and at least go some way towards expressing my gratitude, and my wife Vicki’s gratitude & thanks to the wonderful people who stepped up and provided for us, when we were in our time of need.

Frankly, I stand here speaking on behalf of all our family and loved ones. And I suspect that I’m also speaking for all the patients out there who receive blood, and their families too – because, of course, the patient and the patient’s family don’t ever get to meet their benevolent & selfless blood & platelet donors.

So this is as close as we’re going to get to saying thank you.

And because you don’t get to meet the patients to whom you donate blood, I hope you might find something in my daughter’s story that helps you relate to some of the desperate circumstances and situations that people find themselves in, when they need blood & platelets.

So what I’m going to do for the next few minutes is give you a brief glimpse into Margot’s story…

Husband to Vicki and father to Oscar (2007), Rufus (2008), Digby (2015), Humphrey (2017) & Margot (2012-2014)

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