Give blood, support fellow Hampton student
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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 …
There’s definitely nothing negative about this group of northern refugees. Except maybe their blood group. On Australia Day a group of 26 refugees will donate blood to say “thank you” to their local community. Volunteers from the Punya Foundation, based in Salisbury North, will converge on the Red Cross Modbury …
Ashlee Ruvalcaba is alive thanks to the “gift of life.” “If it wasn’t for donors, I wouldn’t be here today,” said the Atascadero resident, four years after facing a life-and-death health scare. Her experience is why she’s now an advocate for blood donation and is hopeful the upcoming Vitalant (Formerly United Blood Services) …
A little girl who has exhausted all treatment options is to be given the gift of life. Seven-year-old Evie Campbell was diagnosed with the rare blood disorder, Diamond-Blackfan anaemia (DBA), at just seven weeks old. The Shilbottle youngster, who had her 53rd blood transfusion yesterday, is now set to receive …
The story of the Landes family is one of survival and thankfulness as MEDIC Regional Blood Center’s Roll Up Your Sleeve Week continues. “For them to go from two active parents to zero!” said Yvonnca Landes about her four children. “Because I stayed there the whole five and a half …
A Bloomfield man spent more than two decades battling fatigue and the constant threat of illness. Now, he has a new lease on life thanks to the kindness of strangers. Steve Sack was diagnosed with cirrhosis of the liver and ulcerative colitis just after he graduated from college. He was …
“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 …
When Samar Nohra was 11 years old, doctors gave her three months to live. Two decades later, she’s now thanking blood donors for saving her life and encouraging others to roll up their sleeves to give. As a child, the 32-year-old Windsor woman was diagnosed with aplastic anemia, a rare …
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 …
Neva Rogers said she could think of no better way to honor her children than with a blood drive. “So that’s what I wanted to do to remember them and I knew that my children would love the idea, if they were here, they would be happy about saving others,” she …