Blood centers across the country will be starting the new year with critical shortages.

It wasn’t the Christmas Maria Callanan of Easton expected.

“It felt like I had a knife going inside of me, just in and out,” said Callanan. “I told my husband, ‘it’s time to call an ambulance.'”

She says doctors discovered a twisted ovarian cyst, the size of her fist. The 31-year-old tells us she was immediately sent to St. Luke’s Anderson campus for surgery, but her blood levels were dangerously low.

“They explained to me, you don’t even have enough blood to get to your brain to function,” said Callanan.

Callanan says the quick work of the St. Luke’s staff and a blood transfusion were her Christmas miracles.

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