Boy with cancer urges blood donations to flow
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A boy living with cancer hopes Calgarians will roll up their sleeves and let the donations flow, saying he wouldn’t be alive today without them. “They had to take some of my good and bad blood and replace it with good blood,” Foster Garrison said Tuesday at a blood drive …
A mum who needed seven litres of blood transfused after being put on medication for a clot in her lung says she “would not be here today” if it wasn’t for people donating blood. Carol Dickens, aged 40, attended A&E at King’s Mill Hospital in February this year suffering chest …
‘Your donations made it possible for Rosie to have a second chance at life,’ Brian Audia tells group of selfless donors at celebratory event. Brian Audia stood up in front of a room of about 200 people on Monday night with a colourful chain of beads in his hands. The …
One year to the day after finding out their five-year-old son, Ethan, had leukemia, Aseem and Tracy Mahajan helped draw new donors to a blood clinic Saturday at Branlyn Community Centre. “Donating blood may not be a priority for many people now because there’s no need in their lives but …
Weeks after surgery the teen injured in a Woodsboro shooting last month is just beginning to heal. But she is not giving up. 16-year-old, Alice Henderson was transferred by Halo Flight to Spohn Shoreline with internal bleeding. She underwent surgery and received over 50 units of blood. It was a …
16-year-old Alice Henderson survived a shooting in early May because of a surgical procedure that involved a significant blood transfusion. Alice wants to pay it forward with a unique blood drive. Alice’s mother, Nicole Henderson, has been by her daughter side every day since she was wounded in a shooting. …
A 10-year-old Jacksonville boy was celebrating Friday after receiving his 100th blood transfusion. Cai Cammilleri has a very rare blood disorder called beta thalassemia major, which causes a range of symptoms and requires him to get blood transfusions once a month. Fortunately, his classmates know how to cheer him up. …
An assisted living facility hosted a special blood drive Wednesday in honor of the son of one of their employees. Akilah Looney has worked at The Kensington in Hastings for 1.5 years on their memory care floor. Her son, Kingston Levarity, is ten years old. He’s had sickle cell anemia …
A young girl from Riverview, N.B. has battled back from cancer, and her and her family are celebrating by giving back the gift of life, by organizing a blood drive. Elizabeth Davis remembers that fateful day in 2014 like it was yesterday. “When we arrived we were told that Chloe’s …
Imagine going into work, doing your job like any normal week, but one day tripping over a power cord, resulting in the need for 10 pints of blood. Debbie Meyers, a volume control representative for a natural gas company, went to work on a Wednesday not knowing her life would …