Saving baby Noah from leukemia through blood, platelet donations

“I really don’t think people understand what it means to us. It’s more than them giving blood, it’s helping our child survive and live,” said Michael Sileno. Last July, at three and a half years old, Noah Sileno was diagnosed with B cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia. It’s an aggressive form …
When Samar Nohra was 11 years old, doctors gave her three months to live. Two decades later, she’s now thanking blood donors for saving her life and encouraging others to roll up their sleeves to give. As a child, the 32-year-old Windsor woman was diagnosed with aplastic anemia, a rare …
The staff at the UCLA Blood and Platelet Center helped one local man thank each and every blood donor who helped save his life. The goal of this annual luncheon is to show firsthand how blood donation makes a difference. One by one, 39-year-old Tyler Bacon, of Thousand Oaks, greeted …
Neva Rogers said she could think of no better way to honor her children than with a blood drive. “So that’s what I wanted to do to remember them and I knew that my children would love the idea, if they were here, they would be happy about saving others,” she …
Each year thousands of New Zealanders give part of themselves away for nothing in return. In Stuff’s five-part series, Hannah Martin spoke to those who give and receive everything from organs to sperm about the lifesaving and life-changing effects of their actions. Each time she spikes a fever or gets …
Oliviah Hall may be gone but her memory continues to live on in her community. On Friday, more than a hundred people turned out for Team Oliviah’s Red Cross blood drive. “In December, Oliviah came to visit us and I promised her I’d come and give blood,” recalled Joanne Prickett. …
In honor of National Blood Donor Month and to remember two local heroes, the Glens Falls community came out to a blood drive at the Glens Falls YMCA. It was organized in memory of Dave Strader and Ken Hand, both lost their life to a rare form of cancer. Hand’s 19-year-old daughter Stephanie …
Local Red Cross blood drive coordinator Jake Dixon has made giving blood a lifetime commitment. Dixon started donating as a young man to save a friend’s life and found the experience so rewarding, he never stopped. Read Full Article
Nora Bazin shuffles through a handful of cards with messages written by strangers she will never meet. “What do you call an alligator wearing a vest?” she asks, reading one card. “An investigator.” Her mother smiles and laughs. Nora, 7, has T-cell lymphoblastic lymphoma, an aggressive cancer that started in the lymph nodes in her neck and …
Data shows that more than 90 percent of the world’s population will need blood in their lifetime, yet only 3 percent donate. A Chicago man is hoping to change that, one pint at a time. Mark Buciak holds what’s considered “hero status” when it comes to donating blood – and …