A dire blood shortage and one man’s decades-long commitment to give | PBS NewsHour
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Every other Wednesday, you can find Mike Adams sitting in the chair at The Blood Center in Metairie, Louisiana. By his own account, Adams is a quiet, unassuming suit salesman at a local mall. Others at the center call him the “Man with the Golden Arm.” After decades of donating …
Information has come to hand that well known local personality, Peter Stenner, has recently made his 70th donation of blood to the Blood Bank. Peter began making this generous donation approximately 25 years ago with the Australian Red Cross in Cobram. At that time, there were several other members of …
Giving back to your community can take many different shapes and forms. For 61-year-old Thorold resident Joyce Little, it’s donating blood, which she recently did for the 100th time. “I go pretty much as many times as I’m allowed to,” says Little, in an interview with ThoroldToday. “There’s so many …
A LITTLE boy living with cancer has created a special video – released on his sixth birthday – encouraging more people to give blood and raise awareness for the charity that supported him. Henry Turner, from Southend, was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia in April 2020, shortly after his third …
It’s been called the gift of life for a good reason. Large supplies of donated blood are used every day, and one Kansas City-area donor has given his share — and then some. Time and pints have added up for 72-year-old Terry Burns. When Burns donated blood on Wednesday, it …
On the court, Sam Griesel can be unstoppable. But in late 2021, while the Lincoln native was still playing for North Dakota State, an experience off the court ripped away that sense of invincibility. “I ended up on the ground, in and out of consciousness, and threw up a little …
He recently reached his 150th pint, at age 59. He has found the hour it takes to donate his blood about four times a year for the past 42 years. “There is still a need. We still don’t have synthetic blood, like someone can’t go to a lab and make …
A mother of two with sickle cell disease met several blood donors who helped save her life. The New York Blood Center held the reunion on Valentine’s Day. Stacey Sottile is a lifelong New Yorker who was born and raised in Queens. Like approximately 10,000 New Yorkers, Stacey lives with …
One woman’s fight against cancer has inspired her friends and family to make sure she and others like her all over the country have access to the treatment that is in urgently short supply. After being diagnosed in December of 2021, Sun Wortman’s treatments for an aggressive form of leukemia …
A dozen people who had never met before gathered at New York Blood Center’s donor center on the Upper East Side on Tuesday morning because they have something in common. They’ve all played a part in saving Stacey Sottile’s life by simply donating blood. “Everyone was needed for me to …