APPLETON, Wis. (WBAY) - The Community Blood Center is urging all eligible donors to donate blood as soon as possible after nearly a month of critical need for multiple blood types.

Eight to 10 minutes of your time spent donating blood can save a life.

“Their generosity has definitely made an importance and impacted me a great deal,” James Griffin said.

For people like James Griffin, who has had, by his account, at least 100 donations over his lifetime because of a genetic blood disorder, donations of blood give him a chance to live a normal life.

“My first blood transfusion came at the age of 6 and I can remember just being nervous and not know what to expect and when the blood came up to the floor I was excited because they was telling me I was going to be, feel better and I wouldn’t

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