Have you ever wondered where your blood goes after you donate?
As I rolled up my sleeve to donate blood at ARUP Blood Services, their spokesperson, Lance Bandley told me; “Every single day there’s 12 to 18 kids at Primary Children’s waiting for blood. At University and Huntsman there’s another 40 to 50 patients every single day that need blood.”
It was time to follow the blood and drive up to Primary Children’s Hospital. Anne Harvey is Pediatric Nurse there. She told me about one of the kids their waiting for blood; “He has a condition called beta thalassemia. For someone Garrett’s size, we need at least 2 people every single month for his whole entire life to donate.”
Meet Garrett Thorell and his Mom, Rachel.
Garrett told me simply; “Every 3 to 4 weeks I get up and go up to the hospital and see the doctors and stuff they are waiting for the blood to come and they hook me up.”
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