A mum who needed seven litres of blood transfused after being put on medication for a clot in her lung says she “would not be here today” if it wasn’t for people donating blood.

Carol Dickens, aged 40, attended A&E at King’s Mill Hospital in February this year suffering chest pain.

A scan revealed that Carol was suffering from a pulmonary embolism, a blockage of an artery in the lung.

The business owner was put on blood thinning medication, but the bleeding became more severe, as she already suffered from severe menstrual bleeding, due to non-cancerous growths around the womb called fibroids.

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