Ahead of World Blood Donor Day this Thursday, Lisa Smyth hears why two families in Northern Ireland feel huge gratitude to those who regularly give blood.
‘James was so ill… he wouldn’t be alive now if he hadn’t had those blood transfusions’
Teacher Laura Lennox (34) lives in Moneymore, Co Londonderry, with her husband, Gareth, also 34. The couple have two children, James, who turns four in August, and two-and-a-half-year-old Lucy. She says:
James was a healthy little boy and then in April last year he started vomiting and having diarrhoea. “To begin with we put it down to a wee tummy bug, but it got to the point where he was passing a stool every 15 minutes and after three days there really was nothing left for him to pass.”
It looked like he was almost passing the lining of his gut and then he started passing blood in his stools, so we took him to A&E.
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