Blood Recipient Stories

by Jessica
In march of 2011 I was having a normal day. Cleaning the yard playing with my child until i felt something inside of me cramp up and began to feel a small gush of something. I immediately ran inside and of course instantly sat on the toilet. I waited a few minutes but the blood just began to get stronger. My husband had me rush to the ER. At that time we only lived about 5 minutes driving from the Hospital closest to us. By the time those 5 minutes went by my entire lower body was saturated with blood. I walked into the ER crying and they immediately took me in. I waited a long time and was hemmoraging losing so much blood. They couldnt get it to stop. I remember lastly passing out and even the nurses were afraid I wasnt going to make it. I had to get 3 bags of blood. That literally saved my life that day. If it wasnt for amazing donors I would not be alive today to help others as those have helped me or spread the word of donation. I wouldnt be able to watch my amazing son grow up. Thank you so much for your donations.

by TRACI
On August 21, 1996 I had my first daughter, Kristina. During delivery there were some complications (I’ll spare you the “gory” details); but the bottom line was I hemorrhaged to the point of being unconscious. I had lost so much blood that my body was unable to replenish the blood on its own. Kristina was fine thank goodness, but I was pretty bad. I was so weak from the blood loss that I literally could not move or take care of her.

Two days later I was transfused with two pints of blood before being taken to surgery, during which I hemorrhaged more and received another two pints. The surgery went fine, but a few years later I found out that the doctor told my family that I might not make it. I was in such shock afterwards that I literally do not remember the first two months of “Teen’s” life.

Thanks to a generous person I was able to receive the blood transfusions that literally saved my life.

Now I am asking you to spend one hour of your time to save someone’s life. Teen and I thank you in advance 

by Gina
In April 2003, I went into the hospital for a scheduled c-section with my 5th baby. This pregnancy had it's own complications already with my baby being born 6 weeks before his due date. I had developed an antibody in my blood which proved to be more of a complication than we had ever thought it would be. During the surgery, the doctor said that there was a hole in my uterus and the placenta had attached itself to my bladder and other organs. I began to hemorage; the doctor couldn't stop the bleeding. He reccomended a hysterectomy to which we agreed in order to try to save my life. We were very sad that I would no longer be able to have any children. Because I had lost so much blood, they ordered some blood for me. Because of the antibody that I had developed somehwere along the line, my normal bloodtype Apos wouldn't work because of the antibody. This cut my odds down considerably. I lost 7 units of blood during this ordeal and they were only able to match 1 unit right away. I received one unit of blood. After my surgery was completed, the doctor came into the recovery room, looked at me with tears in his eyes and said "You shouldn't be alive, you shouldn't be here" That was when he told me that I lost so much blood and how short of a supply there was that matched my blood. I later received one more unit that they were able to find in another hospital 50 miles away.

I am so very grateful for those 2 units of blood that I did receive! I would encourage everyone to donate blood, you could save a new mother's life.

by Desma
Hello, my name is Desma and all through my life I've had a heavy menstral cycle. Every month I would get sick and could not do nothing. All through 2011 I was dizzy, could not stand up, could not even walk from my living room to the bath room without feeling like I was going to pass out; so I went to the doctor for a regular check up, and knowing that I was over weight he was going to say that me being over weight was why I was feeling that way.However he took some blood and told me to weight to see what my blood test say. Well I needed a blood transfution. So on the 4th of July I had my first transfution.Well that was not it.It was just getting worst and worst. So i had to be rushed to the hospital on December 22nd and they performed an emergency hysterctomy and blood transfution. I recieved 6 pints of blood that day.I just want to thank every one who donates blood, because without you I would not be alive today! Thank You Very Much!!!!!

by Danielle
Isabella was born at 32 weeks, profoundly anemic with a hemoglobin of 2.2. She had stopped moving and I knew something wrong. I went to the hospital and they quickly agreed with me that something was seriously wrong. She was born that morning, August 23, 2009 by emergency C section. She was pale..white as a ghost, actually. The doctors were gravely concerned since she had lost almost half of her blood volume due to a hemorrage in utero. However, as soon as they gave her blood....lots of it, and platelets, she stabilized and turned pink!! She is now a happy, healthy 2 year old and we could never thank the blood donors who saved her life!!!!