As many people donated blood on Thursday for the annual Hit a Home Run for Life Blood Drive, one Midlands woman says it’s because of blood donations that she’s alive today.

WIS and the American Red Cross teamed up for the blood drive. Donors had a choice of five different locations to donate their blood for people like Lorraine Bowman.

Bowman was diagnosed with sickle cell as a baby and doctors didn’t expect her to live past the age of 12.

“This is something we were born with. You didn’t ask for it, but you learn to live with it,” Bowman said.

She turned 60 this year.

“God is good,” Bowman expressed.

Sickle cell a red blood cells disorder that typically requires frequent blood transfusions.

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