Just minutes after she was born on Oct. 21, 1964, Teresa Maxwell, MT (ASCP), was rushed away from her parents for a lifesaving blood transfusion.

“My mom’s blood was attacking my blood in utero,” Maxwell said. “So the day I was born, I had to have a complete exchange transfusion. They had to drain all of my blood and give me new blood. Without that transfusion, I wouldn’t have lived.”

Without that transfusion, she added, she wouldn’t have been given the opportunity to be the wife and mother she is today. Her six children wouldn’t exist.

“If you really stop to think about everything that’s happened over the last 58 years, it wasn’t only my life that was impacted by the blood I received. Many lives benefited.”

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