I never thought I would need blood in my life. I’ve never been to the hospital. I’d never broken a bone. I thought that I was generally a healthy person until the day that I ended up in the hospital.
I started feeling severe abdominal pain for two days. My husband, he kept telling me, “Go to the hospital, you need to go to the hospital.” The doctors told me that if i had waited any longer to come into the hospital and get checked out, that it could have been fatal.
When she received the blood, it was huge relief. She started looking like herself again.
I just asked, “Who provided the blood?” And they told me it was the American Red Cross. I work for the Red Cross. I tell the story about blood donations and why it’s so important every day, but never knowing that I was going to be the one that needed it myself. Two donors took the time to donate blood, and saved my life.
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