Canadian Blood Services encouraging people to visit blood donor clinic in support of Childhood Cancer awareness month.
WOODSTOCK -- Becoming a blood donor can save a life - including the life of a child living with cancer.
September is Childhood Cancer Awareness month and Canadian Blood Services has teamed up with the gold ribbon campaign to encourage people to become a blood donor; donate blood to honour childhood cancer survivors and remember the childhood heroes who lost their lives..
Carolyn Romkes' daughter Olivia was six when she was diagnosed with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia. Romkes says Olivia received her diagnosis while they were vacationing up north. "They told me her blood counts were so low that if we had a went home in our truck she would have died from heart attack. It's so important, if it wasn't for the blood transfusions, they wouldn't be here and even on the chemo, it just knocks their numbers way down and without a blood transfusion they wouldn't survive."
Four years after the diagnosis, Olivia is in remission and in October 2015, if no cancer cells are found she'll be considered cancer-free.
Romkes says the blood transfusions - blood donations are what saved her daughter's life and is encouraging everyone to get out and donate. "I know Olivia would say mom they can do it, if I can do it and have 15 of them, that's just blood transfusions itself and 165 times she was picked with a needle, then she would just say yeah you can do it, anybody can do it...try it once."
A Blood Donor Clinic is being held Saturday (September 20) at Maranatha Church in Woodstock from 9:00 am to 12:00 pm. There are still a number of spaces available for appointments and you can call 1-888-2DONATE (236-6283) or visit http://blood.ca/. Walk-ins are also welcomed.
To register your donation as part of the Gold Ribbon Campaign, go to blood.ca/joinpartnersforlife using partner ID #GOLD013121.
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