Louisville mother leading blood drives saved by donation sees daughter graduate
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A Louisville mother’s life has come full circle as the Kentucky Blood Center gears up for a summer blood drive. In 2004, Melissa Crittenden gave birth to Erin, her second child. Melissa almost bled to death after complications arose during and after labor and she ended up receiving more than …
Albert Jasso knows how important it is to have donated blood at the ready during a medical emergency. Jasso’s 11-year-old son, Cam, recently needed blood transfusions while undergoing chemotherapy treatments for orbital rhabdomyosarcoma, a cancer of the eye. “This time around, we knew it was going to be more intense, …
Every month, Kathryn Banks relies on the plasma donations of 200 strangers to help her manage a rare neurological auto-immune condition. Without the generously donated blood products, the Taranaki teacher’s quality of life would rapidly deteriorate. “Because of these donors, I can carry on with my life. I’m not bedridden …
Marleigh Fisher looks like any other happy six-year-old girl. She loves going to school, playing with her friends and attending ballet classes. But there is much more to this brave little girl than meets the eye. Diagnosed with a chronic autoimmune disorder when she was just three, Marleigh is being …
A mum has issued an urgent plea as her young and “inspirational” son continues his cancer battle. Charlie Stuchberry, five, was taken to St Helens walk-in on January 29 after coming out in a rash that “looked like sepsis”. But after being sent to Whiston Hospital, the family received the …
Paul Dragan, considered “clinically dead” after being shot by an ex-employee outside his Vancouver bike shop in 2014, says he ‘wouldn’t be alive right now if I didn’t get the blood from someone else.’ The gifts of strangers brought him back to life roughly eight years ago, and now, a …
Every two seconds, someone in the United States needs life-saving blood. That need was never more evident than for Great Falls resident Troy Ross. Ross suffered from an autoimmune disease called pulmonary capillaritis, a rare lung disease, and needed nine pints of blood just to get airlifted to Seattle. Troy …
A MUM whose infant son needed a life-saving blood transfusion is backing an NHS drive to boost the number of donors. Teacher Steph Davis, 39, gave birth to her son Aiden at Winchester Hospital. Soon after the delivery, the newborn needed a life-saving blood transfusion. Alfie’s mother’s blood had crossed …
You may have seen a headline or two about the importance of blood donation and the recent blood shortages many in the United States are facing. So, what is a blood shortage? Faith Friesen, the blood bank supervisor at the LMH Health Laboratory, said to put it simply, it means …
The American Red Cross says they are teaming up with the family of a boy who was hospitalized with a rare immune disease. In 2017, Troy Ross, a then 2-year-old from Great Falls was diagnosed with a rare immune disease that required nearly three-quarters of his blood be replaced, according …