In December 2010, Cindy Weber was almost ready to go back to work after recovering from a surgery she had undergone a month prior.
“I had a hysterectomy, and everything was textbook when I had it, but I was not going in the right direction,” she said.
“I began hemorrhaging at home, completely out of the blue. And I laid on my bathroom floor bleeding to death, essentially.”
Cindy’s husband called an ambulance. The children ran down to the end of the driveway to flag it down.
“I received two units of blood in the emergency room, three units of blood during surgery, plus a six-pack of platelets I just discovered the other day that that was added and then two additional units of blood before I could be released from the hospital,” she said.
“I was told I lost about 80% of my blood, and if I had not been young and had a strong heart I would not have made it that night.”
Cindy also wouldn’t be here today telling her story if not for those seven units of blood, donated by perfect strangers who she calls her “seven angels.”
“To all those who donated and continue to donate, I am a perfect example of a life saved. And there are millions and millions of us out there,” she said.
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