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For years, Peter and Mary Ann Gordon of Portland have known the importance of giving blood, but it wasn’t until overcoming the scariest of circumstances that Mary Ann opted to donate blood for the first time. “I had never given blood and am fearful every time someone has taken blood …
BATU PAHAT, Feb 13: Ahmad Aidil Nasir, 48, made his first blood donation after his mother was involved in a road crash 30 years ago. After witnessing how difficult it was for his mother to get a blood supply while undergoing treatment at the hospital, the Malaysian Red Crescent Society …
A Marshfield, Mo. man is alive due in part to the help of several strangers. In 2020, Sid McConnell began suffering from chest pains. He needed a quadruple bypass in order to survive. As part of the procedure, McConnell received seven blood transfusions. On Friday, he met and thanked two …
A Valley teen is getting ready to celebrate her sweet 16 birthday, but due to COVID-19 and social distancing guidelines, she can’t celebrate it in the usual way. Instead, Kessa Hancock is working to get 20 other people to sign up for a blood drive for her 16th birthday. In …
Two friends recently overcame their fears for the benefit of the community. At 11:20 a.m., OSF St. Francis Hospital Community Relations Coordinator Joanna Wilbee-Amis and Northern Lights YMCA Community Wellness Director Nicole Fitch gave blood for the first time. The donations were made at the first of a series of …
Giving blood is giving the gift of life. It’s a phrase you’ve likely heard before but it’s one Washington’s Tara Brower now takes to heart. In December, Brower, mom to four little boys, Edwards Jones financial advisor and 4-H advocate was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia, a type of blood …
The Houchin Community Blood Bank has announced it’s holding a community blood drive Saturday to support a Valencia High School student diagnosed with leukemia. After Pedro Roman, 17, was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia in 2019, a large outcropping of support was seen across the Santa Clarita Valley: His football …
Bermagui resident Robert Johnson is reading a book on the Black Summer bushfires during a bit of downtime while making a milestone 750th blood donation at the Garran Red Cross Lifeblood Centre. To the humble 62-year-old, who has been donating blood or plasma since June 1976, Mr Johnson said the …
There has been an urgent need for blood donations during the pandemic and one new mom found out just how critical it is because someone’s donation saved her life and the life of her baby boy. This is a moment that almost didn’t happen. Katherine Bredemeier at North Kansas City …
Eliyanah Brusoe began celebrating her first birthday on Wednesday, Jan. 13, at the same place where she came into the world amidst great difficulty for both her and her mother. The Orange Park Medical Center welcomed mother and daughter back with a blood drive held in the baby’s name on …