Jhoanna Del Rosario braces for summer. Rosario, a territorial manager at Canadian Blood Services, worries for the same reasons why most yearn for the season: looser schedules and weeks-long escapes from Calgary. Because as people lose themselves in their summer plans, whether relishing Stampede’s offerings or slipping away from their
Hoxworth Blood Center is struggling currently with a drop in donors, which tends to happen during the busy summer months. But a little girl named Brynn, who needs donations herself, is asking for help. Brynn was diagnosed with factor XIII deficiency shortly after she was born in 2019. It’s an
Every three weeks, Katrina Crume and Aaron Dean Calloway made the nearly two-hour journey from their home near Owensboro, Kentucky, to Louisville so their baby, Phoebe, could receive a lifesaving blood transfusion. What made these transfusions remarkable was Phoebe was still in the womb. What made them necessary was incompatibility
Blood donations can save lives, and Drea Mizer is a perfect example of that. She received multiple blood transfusions after being diagnosed with late-stage ovarian cancer in 2009. “Ovarian cancer is one of the deadliest gynecological cancers,” said Mizer, co-owner of Buddah Bruddah restaurant. “You’ve got to fight it hard.
