An Orland Park woman says she wants to focus on helping other the way they helped her after a devastating diagnosis. “I just didn’t feel like something was right, so I went to the emergency room,” Marie Fuesel recalled. Fuesel was diagnosed with leukemia, but after receiving nearly 100 transfusions
Here are four beaming children – none of whom would be alive today if a stranger had not given blood. Each of their lives was saved by a transfusion, yet many of us never find the time to sign up to become a donor. Read Full Article
Imperial Valley is being called upon to help one of its own. Longtime Valley resident Joshua Holmes, 30, has been battling a rare form of cancer for the past three years, and, after recent treatment, is in need of blood. Read Full Article
Marine veteran Al Kirby, of Shirley, helped launch a blood drive Monday with the same Stony Brook University Hospital staffers who saved his life last Christmas over the course of a nearly 10-hour surgery using 27 units of blood products. Read Full Article
Dan and Robyn Yatchuk and their four-year-old son Khoen know all too well the importance of blood donation. The Ladner family is sharing their story through Canadian Blood Services encouraging others to support Canada’s Lifeline. Khoen was born with Hereditary Spherocytosis and had his first transfusion at three weeks old.