Dublin Dad opens up about how a blood transfusion helped his three-year-old son

Aaron Cassidy’s son, Axel, was two and a half when doctors found a lump in his head. Aaron says: “We were told to go home, spend the weekend with our son. “It felt like it was the last weekend we were going to have with our son. It was the …
Seven-year-old Cameron Bulger was just like any young boy his age — cheerful and filled with laughter. However, after suffering from silent seizures in his first grade class early in 2018, Cameron was diagnosed with a Grade 4 CNS Embryonal Tumour in his brain, requiring an intense treatment protocol including …
A blood drive on Jan. 30 is being held at Hampton high school from 7:15 a.m. to 7:15 p.m. in honor of a junior who has been battling acute lymphoma leukemia since last year. Hampton’s Sam Triulzi was diagnosed with the disease last May at the end of his sophomore …
“I really don’t think people understand what it means to us. It’s more than them giving blood, it’s helping our child survive and live,” said Michael Sileno. Last July, at three and a half years old, Noah Sileno was diagnosed with B cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia. It’s an aggressive form …
The staff at the UCLA Blood and Platelet Center helped one local man thank each and every blood donor who helped save his life. The goal of this annual luncheon is to show firsthand how blood donation makes a difference. One by one, 39-year-old Tyler Bacon, of Thousand Oaks, greeted …
Oliviah Hall may be gone but her memory continues to live on in her community. On Friday, more than a hundred people turned out for Team Oliviah’s Red Cross blood drive. “In December, Oliviah came to visit us and I promised her I’d come and give blood,” recalled Joanne Prickett. …
In honor of National Blood Donor Month and to remember two local heroes, the Glens Falls community came out to a blood drive at the Glens Falls YMCA. It was organized in memory of Dave Strader and Ken Hand, both lost their life to a rare form of cancer. Hand’s 19-year-old daughter Stephanie …
Nora Bazin shuffles through a handful of cards with messages written by strangers she will never meet. “What do you call an alligator wearing a vest?” she asks, reading one card. “An investigator.” Her mother smiles and laughs. Nora, 7, has T-cell lymphoblastic lymphoma, an aggressive cancer that started in the lymph nodes in her neck and …
A 2-year-old Florida girl in need of rare blood to survive has been matched with a fourth donor, but a worldwide search for more is still underway in order to save her life. Zainab Mughal, who was diagnosed with the aggressive cancer neuroblastoma, is in need of blood transfusions and bone …
A toddler has been described as a “little warrior” after being diagnosed with cancer two days before his second birthday. Connor Grant, from Caerphilly, kept getting recurring ear and chest infections from the age of six months old. But things took a more serious turn when he started developing bruises and …