Ever since he can remember, 14-year-old Landon Kennedy has been fighting against Crohn’s disease. Diagnosed at 18 months and given a colostomy bag at 3 years old, Landon has been through multiple scopes, procedures and surgeries to remove intestines and even received a bone marrow transplant, as the disease causes
Seventeen-year-old Abby Droessler, a Hayward High School junior and student athlete, enjoys riding and showing horses, hunting and volunteering for church and community events. Unlike most teenagers her age, Abby is also a blood recipient who needed multiple transfusions of blood products following a July 2015 watercraft accident that left
In March 2017 Amelia Iverson suffered a near-fatal birth complication requiring massive amounts of blood transfusions. In total, she received 61 units, which replaced all the blood in her body approximately six times. Now Iverson wants to give back and make sure there is enough blood for others who need
Soon after she and her husband Greg arrived in Onida to make their home here in 1992, volunteer blood drive coordinator Diane Lorenz organized her first blood drive, and she’s been serving as the coordinator ever since. In recognition of her twenty-five years of volunteering, United Blood Services’ July 25
A three-year-old’s struggle has people lining up to help save more lives in Halifax County. Anne-Marie Griffin has inspired a blood drive at Grace Baptist Church in Virgilina. Read Full Article
