Mother of three-year-old girl with leukemia says blood donation is a ‘massive gift’ that saves lives.
Young high school students giving blood for the first time Thursday learned how important the “gift of life” is when they met a little girl whose life has been saved because of blood donations.
Three-year-old Amelia Saunders — along with her parents Doug Saunders and Veronica Vardy — visited Canadian Blood Services in St. John’s Thursday to thank donors for donating blood that helps save so many people’s lives.
Amelia was diagnosed with leukemia in July and since that time has had 11 blood transfusions.
Amelia is responding well to treatment, Vardy says.
As Vardy and the smiling little Amelia went to speak with donors, Doug signed up to make a blood donation.
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