Women recounts importance of blood donations ahead of Community Heroes Blood Drive

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Our annual Community Heroes Blood Drive is coming up this Friday and Saturday at the Rushmore Mall. And there are few gifts you can give more valuable than the gift of blood.

And no one knows that better than Katura Neal of Rapid City.

It’s a calm look back through memories now for Ketura and Matt Veal. But it was a different time 18 years ago. Pregnant with their fourth child, Katura found out late in the pregnancy that she was having twins. After a C-section, she found out the twins were conjoined. They didn’t survive andthen it turned harrowing for Ketura…

Veal says, “And then I felt some moisture at my ankles. So I lifted up the sheet and I look and I’m laying in this pool of blood. And the nurse that was sitting there in the room, I said ‘is this normal’?”

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