Audrey Lopez’s bicycle sits inside the front door of her apartment, a reminder of a different life she was living just weeks before. The rest of her house is filled with boxes. She’s in the process of moving to a ground-level apartment with more ‘accessibility,” a rushed necessity for the 25-year-old.
“I was ordering things on Amazon I never thought I’d be ordering: a walker and shower bar, non-slip mats and canes,” Lopez said.
Despite her new handicaps, Lopez, a phlebotomist, is grateful she’s alive — and she’s grateful for the blood donors who made that possible.
From taking blood to needing blood
In April, Lopez was infected by the Epstein-Barr virus, one of the most common human viruses, which then lead to infectious mononucleosis, also called mono.
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