Next time you ask yourself whether you should donate blood, Kevin and Julie Barton said they hope you think of their family and so many others like them.

Last summer, two weeks after their first-born, Logan Cooper Barton, came into their lives, Julie Barton suffered a serious complication. The placenta had gone into her uterine wall.

“Knowing that the blood supply was low, I was very fearful,” Julie Barton said.

She said she’d heard news reports about the chronic blood shortages at the South Texas Blood and Tissue Center due to the pandemic.

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