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 stopped working a year later. Since then, she’s needed frequent blood transfusions.
Her loved ones partnered with the American Red Cross and are asking as many people as possible to roll up their sleeves and go to the German Township St. Paul’s United Church of Christ to give blood.
Ashley Hughes, BioMed District Manager of American Red Cross Southwest Indiana, told 44News ”folks like Sun might very well need blood products on a daily or even weekly basis. Everything I have heard from the folks who have donated in her honor already have just spoken about how awesome she is. We’ve loved having the ability to just share that honor, again, and share her story.”
Nearly fifty years ago, Sun and her husband, Mark, met while he was stationed in Korea with the United States Army. She moved to Evansville with him, and one month later, they were married at the very church in which the blood drive will take place.
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