Most of the time when you donate blood, you don’t know where it goes, or who it goes to, but Haylee Werth is one of those recipients.

The 7-year-old’s journey started in October 2020 when she was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia.

“She woke up in the middle of the night with intense leg pain that ended up taking us into the ER,” Haylee’s mom Kayla Werth said, “They did some X-rays and ran blood tests and the blood test came back abnormal. We went straight to the children’s hospital so she started chemotherapy right away.”

One of Haylee’s treatments included blood transfusions. She’s just one of more than 5,000,000 people who need a blood transfusion any given year.

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