Blood drives coming up in region
Resolve to give blood with the Red Cross
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January 4, 2019
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The American Red Cross encourages people to help meet the urgent need for blood by resolving to give blood this January — National Blood Donor Month.
Donating blood is a way to make a lifesaving impact in the new year for patients like Judy Janssen, who was diagnosed with end-stage autoimmune liver disease in 2016. Janssen received frequent blood transfusions — sometimes multiple times a week — until she underwent a liver transplant last January.
“Blood donors make a really big difference with very little effort,” said Janssen, who received dozens of transfusions...
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