Co Antrim boy celebrating new lease of life after being saved by strangers – Belfast Live
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When little Oliver Beverland from Ballymoney was born in June 2019 with a malrotation in his bowel, it was the start of a long and difficult journey with his health. After surgery to correct the issue with his bowel, the Co Antrim boy then spent 10 months in the Royal …
Waco resident Matt Shane is getting back on his bike for the first time in over a year. “I was very active running, biking, triathlon…” Shane said. Shane was also an active blood donor and donated every chance he got up until his childhood diagnosis caught up with him. “I …
A 29-year-old mother of twins is advocating for more blood donors to come forward after one of her newborn sons desperately needed blood transfusions to save his life. Jodie Lewis and her partner Niall Trew from Gilfach Goch, were told during a routine scan at 26 weeks that one of …
In the midst of a blood crisis, a Nicholasville survivor tells her story, urging the community to donate. It was 2018 when a fatal one-vehicle accident involving multiple Nicholasville teenagers shook the Jessamine County community. Megan Picinich was only sixteen years old when she woke up from a coma, wondering …
A group of students graduating from Halifax West High School are celebrating the milestone by banding together to donate blood. The graduates and their parents are making the largest group donation ever in Halifax, according to the Canadian Blood Services. “It feels awesome,” said Cole Oakley. “When you get poked …
Woodway resident Cindy Potts first donated blood back in 1991 after years of her dad recommending it. “He would tell me ‘You know you should do this, it’s not bad’,” Potts said. “I would say ‘No, I don’t like needles’.” Then one day there was a blood drive at her …
Where to find compatible blood was the last thing on Mandy Arnold’s mind when her son, Bradley Arnold, was diagnosed with kidney cancer. That’s why she felt grateful when the American Red Cross stepped in to provide the blood needed. Mandy and the other members of the Arnold family were …
Stratford’s Elsie Seltzer has achieved a milestone she’s been working toward since she was just 17 years old. Now 72, Seltzer made her 100th blood donation at the Canadian Blood Services donor clinic in the Stratford Rotary Complex Tuesday afternoon. “I have all kinds of feelings,” Seltzer said while waiting …
A young girl who became the face of several donor campaigns for the South Texas Blood and Tissue Center has won her fight with cancer. Amy Morkovsky was first diagnosed with cancer at the age of two in January 2021. “He looked at me and said ‘he’s great, his counts …
On Friday, May 19th, Pueblo resident David Mihalick, made his 90th-gallon donation at Vitalant’s Colorado Springs Donation Center, which is the equivalent of about 720 donations. Mihalick has been donating blood since 1985 and gave for the first time when an employee’s mother needed a lifesaving transfusion. He is among …