SEVEN-year-old Ashton Jugov-Janiec owes his life to 10 units of blood he received when he was born extremely early.
The Beckenham schoolboy was born at 22 weeks — or four months premature — because of complications with his mother’s pregnancy.
Soon after his birth, Ashton needed multiple blood transfusions because he was very bruised, as well as having many blood tests, and his small blood volume meant he was at significant risk of anaemia.
Ashton spent the first six months of his life in hospital, firstly at King Edward Memorial and then at Princess Margaret Hospital.
Incredibly, he shows little sign of his early struggle to survive, an outcome his mother Mary Jugov-Janiec says is because of generous blood donors at the time.
“The first three years of his life were quite critical and he was very prone to infections, but from a medical view he’s going great now and is quite robust,” Ms Jugov-Janiec said.
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