Blood donations help to save a St. Augustine 2-year-old’s life – WOKV
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Action News Jax and OneBlood are teaming up for the Spring Into Action Blood Drive now through Friday, May 10. The Big Red Bus is outside of the Action News Jax studios until 4 p.m. Wednesday. And when you donate blood, you are saving someone’s life, like 2-year-old Violet Cruz. …
One-year-old Declan de Gruy is a patient in need of blood transfusions every three weeks. Declan was diagnosed with Diamond-Blackfan anemia (DBA) at just three months old, leaving his bone marrow unable to make red blood cells. While many patients with DBA can be treated effectively with steroid therapy, Declan …
Sixteen-year-old Andie Morrison is no stranger to London Health Sciences Centre (LHSC) and Children’s Hospital. Andie was born with Diamond Blackfan Anemia (DBA), a rare bone marrow failure which had her fighting for her life at the early age of nine weeks old. Children with DBA have bone marrow that …
A blood donation drive was held on Saturday afternoon to help a one year-old baby battling a rare blood disorder. Christopher Parent, Commander at Veterans of Foreign Wars post 9095 in Little Rock, said they wanted to do something to help the community and were able to get in touch …
Nellie Grenier, the mother of a nine-year-old girl in Sherbrooke, Que., says blood product donations not only saved her daughter as a baby but also ensured she can enjoy a typical childhood. Her daughter, Justine, has a genetic disease known as Diamond-Blackfan anemia, where the bone marrow fails to produce …
The national blood shortage is putting patients who rely on donations at risk. Atlanta News First spoke to a patient with sickle cell disease in LaGrange who said without this support she can barely function, and now she’s hoping more people will step up and donate. “It’s a lifesaver and …
Vicky McGillivray wasn’t well, wasn’t getting better and wasn’t able to get an appointment with a GP overnight — and she wanted all that to change. The 50-year-old human dynamo from Gunbower — where, among other things, she is president of the Gunbower Racing Club and working overtime for the …
The co-founder and CEO of the KD Hall Foundation has a personal connection to sickle cell and is encouraging Black donors to help out. “People living with sickle cell, they’re just like you and me. There’s really no difference,” said KD Hall. Sickle cell anemia is a condition that affects …
A blood drive to help people living with the inherited blood disorder sickle cell anemia was held in Brockton on Friday. “This is a matter of life and death,” says Michael Hendricks, whose wife lives with sickle cell anemia, a blood disorder that results in an abnormality in the oxygen-carrying …
David Dandridge Jr. was born with sickle cell disease but was not diagnosed until the age of two after suffering a pain crisis. The most common genetic blood disorder in the U.S., sickle cell disease can cause severe pain, tissue and organ damage and even strokes. For patients battling the …