Months after being admitted to the hospital, Moody High School Football Coach Michael Cantu wants the community to donate blood.

In August of 2018, Cantu became sick and as the days passed, he said his condition worsened. Suddenly, he was in a hospital bed.

“They were telling me you’re in dire need of blood,” Coach Cantu said.

It turns out, Cantu was bleeding internally from an ulcer in his stomach.

“That sort of turned my life upside down because I was like ‘I wasn’t bleeding, I wasn’t in a major trauma accident’ I was bleeding internally and didn’t know it,” he said.

When doctors figured he had an ulcer, they also found a tumor. He said he had lost so much blood, doctors ordered a blood transfusion.

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