Local man recounts near-fatal crash, importance of donating blood
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Baptist Health Paducah Engineer Zach Houser was in a coma for nearly three months after being involved in a serious car accident in 2001. He credits a generous blood donor with saving his life. According to a Monday release from Baptist Health, Houser lost a significant amount of blood in …
For many, blood transfusions are a routine part of their care, care they can’t live without. Barbara Totten is one of those people. “It’s this or nothing. So getting this blood is life saving for me,” Totten said. Trips to Baptist Health Louisville are a near monthly occurrence. She said …
A Harrogate mum has praised her seven-year-old ‘superhero’ who has one of the world’s rarest rare blood disorders after her brave little boy underwent his 100th blood transfusion. Archie was just ten weeks old when he was diagnosed with Diamond-Blackfan Anemia, an extremely rare blood disorder that effects approximately 1,000 …
Saturday afternoon’s pedestrian traffic at 2700 Whiskey Road was friendly and slow-moving, as Mercy Church played host to a blood drive in honor of Ashton Rickard, 13, who was severely injured in a shooting June 7 in Aiken and had blood transfusions as a part of her emergency treatment. Several …
Pennelope Beckles-Robinson has reached out to the public with a heartfelt plea to donate blood, sharing her personal experience of how this simple act saved her life during her intense battle with cancer over two decades ago. In an emotional address during the launch of the Blood Donation Kakuhu Lounge …
David Dandridge Jr. was born with sickle cell disease but was not diagnosed until the age of two after suffering a pain crisis. The most common genetic blood disorder in the U.S., sickle cell disease can cause severe pain, tissue and organ damage and even strokes. For patients battling the …
When little Oliver Beverland from Ballymoney was born in June 2019 with a malrotation in his bowel, it was the start of a long and difficult journey with his health. After surgery to correct the issue with his bowel, the Co Antrim boy then spent 10 months in the Royal …
Waco resident Matt Shane is getting back on his bike for the first time in over a year. “I was very active running, biking, triathlon…” Shane said. Shane was also an active blood donor and donated every chance he got up until his childhood diagnosis caught up with him. “I …
A 29-year-old mother of twins is advocating for more blood donors to come forward after one of her newborn sons desperately needed blood transfusions to save his life. Jodie Lewis and her partner Niall Trew from Gilfach Goch, were told during a routine scan at 26 weeks that one of …
In the midst of a blood crisis, a Nicholasville survivor tells her story, urging the community to donate. It was 2018 when a fatal one-vehicle accident involving multiple Nicholasville teenagers shook the Jessamine County community. Megan Picinich was only sixteen years old when she woke up from a coma, wondering …