The Bell family is gearing up for two big anniversary celebrations.
It has been five years since Lizzie, 24, received her life-saving bone-marrow transplant, and soon the family will celebrate a decade in the home built for them by the TV show “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition” after Lizzie was honored as an American Red Cross Hero for her ambassadorship with blood donations.
In lieu of throwing a party, the Bells are staging a blood drive.
“July 25 was Lizzie’s transplant anniversary and she is 100 percent engrafted,” said Lizzie’s mom, Kathy Flores Bell. “Last year her blood level hemoglobin was 11.6, which means she began making her own red blood cells. This year her hemoglobin is 14.1. We have never heard those kinds of numbers, so it is a very exciting time.”
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