When her grandmother was diagnosed with a rare leukemia, Darby Thomas saw firsthand the...
Darcy Richard, 23, presses on a gauze on her arm where blood was drawn for donation, Thursday, March 17, 2022, in Houston. Richard’s grandmother, Alice Hinton, was treated for acute myeloid leukemia at MD Anderson Cancer Center and blood transfusions were crucial to her survival. Hinton received 15 units of blood while fighting cancer.
“If it depended on your family member getting one single bag of blood whether they lived or died, wouldn’t you want someone to do that for your family member?” Thomas said. The shortage is especially grave for rare blood types, such as O-negative, the universal donor. In recent weeks the Red Cross has had less than a one-day supply nationally of critical blood types, the humanitarian organization reported.
For Hinton, who traveled 140 miles to Houston from her home in Sulphur, Louisiana every few weeks for treatment, receiving the necessary blood transfusions at first was nerve-wracking. It soon became routine.
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