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It’s a sticky subject, and one many people squirm about, but Maycin Buckley is encouraging people to donate blood this Saturday in Cedar Hills.

Maycin just recently turned 18 and graduated from Lone Peak High School, but if it weren’t for gallons of donated blood, she wouldn’t have made it past junior high.

In 2013, she ended up in the emergency room, with specialists debating how to treat her. Maycin has thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura, or TTP, an extremely rare auto-immune blood disease. At the time, her symptoms seemed to also indicate another condition — but if the doctors treated her for that one it would have killed her, because that treatment is fatal to those with TTP.

She was fading fast, and a definitive test would take about five days. She didn’t have that long. So one brave doctor called it TTP, and started treatment.
“We didn’t know what was going on at all. I asked the doctor if it was leukemia, and the doctor said, ‘No, leukemia is easy to treat.’ They wheeled her away, and I thought that was the last I’d see of her,” said Maycin’s mother, Lynsie Brown. “I’m so grateful for that first ER doctor who miraculously knew what it was, and that specialist who made the call.”

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