Since the pandemic, blood donations have lagged behind demand, according to The Kentucky Blood Center. But a 13-year-old Louisville girl is trying to help change that.

At first glance, Jillian Striet appears to be a normal 13-year-old girl, with a love of stuffed animals and shoes.

“I didn’t feel like I do now, so it’s kind of different looking back on memories like I wasn’t sick then,” Jillian Striet said.

Memories before being diagnosed with ulcerative colitis, a disease that has filled her colon with ulcers.

“She lost her color, got really pale, wasn’t acting like herself at all, was complaining of an upset stomach,” her mother, Jennifer Striet, said.

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