Two Lincoln parents are on a mission to encourage more community members to donate blood after witnessing first-hand how blood donations saved their 3-year-old son’s life.
November marks three years since Chase Lavelle was discharged from the hospital. At just four months old, he got E. Coli poisoning and was diagnosed with atypical hemolytic uremic syndrome (aHUS), which is a problem with blood vessels.
It eventually led to kidney failure and put Chase in the hospital for a month. But because of dialysis and blood transfusions, he is now a healthy 3-year-old boy.
“It was something that we really didn’t realize until we were in the hospital, one had a child needing multiple blood transfusions and how important it was to have blood available,” Chase’s mom, Madison Lavelle, said.
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