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Awake!, “Youths Who Have “Power Beyond What Is Normal””

22 May 1994p. 12Source ID src-g94d-kosack-midnight-transfusionAccessed 19 September 2026
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Awake!, “Youths Who Have “Power Beyond What Is Normal””

22 May 1994 · p.12 · par. 32 · Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of New York, Inc.

“At midnight a nurse came in and said: ‘I have to give you some blood.’ I cried out: ‘I can’t take blood because I’m one of Jehovah’s Witnesses! I hope you know that! I hope you know that!’ ‘Well, yes, I do,’ she said, and immediately pulled out my IV and shoved in the blood. I was crying and becoming hysterical.”

Lisa Kosack’s own account, quoted in the article, of her first night at the Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto. She was 12 and had acute myeloid leukaemia. The hospital sought a court order the following morning.

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Accessed. 19 September 2026 · Source ID. src-g94d-kosack-midnight-transfusion