In what seems to be the most perfect timing I received an email from my beautiful and wonderful friend Fiona on the day of Ethan’s birthday.
Fiona wanted to share a video with me because she knew how much it would mean to me. Sending it on Ethan’s birthday may have been an unconscious decision but it was the right one.
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As I watched the opening of the clip the familiar images of ventilators, humdicribs and naso gastric tubes cook me back 12 years to the time when my baby was born. Two months in a neonatal intensive care unit leaves quite an impression.
When Ethan was about 6 weeks old he required a blood transfusion. When the doctors told me that he would need the extra blood I freaked a little. Okay I freaked a lot. I was rather er, anxious during that time and it wasn’t so much the idea of the blood transfusion (I knew that his blood levels were low and he really needed it) but it was yet another procedure he would need to endure.
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Medical science is an amazing thing – my son wouldn’t be here without it. While I will never be a doctor and I don’t have any great scientific or academic contribution that I can make to medicine, to science or to research – I can and will give my blood. I hope you do to.
I am a regular blood donor. I do a plasma donation every fortnight. It is stories like this that make me feel good about what I choose to do. Also, as a mother of two who works four days a week, spending every other Friday morning at the blood bank is really not a burden on my time when I know
I helping others. My best wishes to you and your family.
Heartfelt post. I am truly grateful for anyone who donates their blood/plasma as I needed a blood transfusion two weeks after my latest birth when i suffered a secondary postnatal haemorrhage. My husband has been donating plasma for over a decade, and soon as i can manage it, I too will donate my blood.