Every three weeks, Katrina Crume and Aaron Dean Calloway made the nearly two-hour journey from their home near Owensboro, Kentucky, to Louisville so their baby, Phoebe, could receive a lifesaving blood transfusion. What made these transfusions remarkable was Phoebe was still in the womb. What made them necessary was incompatibility
Blood donations can save lives, and Drea Mizer is a perfect example of that. She received multiple blood transfusions after being diagnosed with late-stage ovarian cancer in 2009. “Ovarian cancer is one of the deadliest gynecological cancers,” said Mizer, co-owner of Buddah Bruddah restaurant. “You’ve got to fight it hard.
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