September is Sickle Cell Awareness Month and Childhood Cancer Awareness Month. Many of us, (myself included) have changed our profile pictures to include frames and filters on various social media …
Topics: Blood
Blood Donors Gave Back All That Cancer Took from Me
Today, I am 15 years old and in 10th grade. At 12 years old I was diagnosed with cancer; shortly before finishing the sixth grade Learning I had T- Lymphoblastic …
School Bells and Sickle Cell
In the days leading up to the first school bells sounding, I was busy buying back-to-school supplies, lunch items and organizing weekly schedules. However, there’s one additional step I take …
Personal Trauma Compels Blood Donor to Give Back
Orginally published on redcross.org. I never really understood the importance of donating blood until I was the one needing it. In 2010, a pulmonary embolism nearly cost me my life. …
First Time Blood Donor Fights Fears to Become Lifesaving Hero
Originally published in Chadds Ford Live. When I was in high school, my sister and I would run home from the bus stop, throw our books down on the kitchen …
How This Blood Donor Won Tickets to See New Kids on the Block
Leslie Desmond has never won a sweepstakes so you can imagine her surprise when she listened to a voicemail left by the American Red Cross this summer. After her most …
My Daughter’s Need for Emergency Blood Products Inspired Me to Help
After serving people in need every day as a firefighter for 35 years, I wasn’t accustomed to receiving help. So, I couldn’t be more grateful to the blood donors that …
Donating Blood with Tattoos: Can I Really Do Both?
Back in 2011, I got my first tattoo. A small piece on the outside of my right ankle that represents my relationship with my anxiety disorder, the love that I …
#MissingTypes: Helping Patients in Need
Did you know only three out of 100 people in the U.S. give blood? Yet each day, kids battling cancer, accident victims being raced into emergency rooms, and new moms …
I am Alive because of Donated Blood
Originally published on redcross.org. June 11, marked the start of the second annual Red Cross Missing Types Campaign – to get the word out about the need for life-saving blood. …