5-year-old ITP patient helps promote South Dakota Blood Drive

Seth Waldie, a 5 year old boy with ITP, and his mother, Jackie, were featured in a story by KEVN Black Hills FOX news station in South Dakota. The video features Seth and Jackie who stress the importance of blood donations, and how Seth has directly benefited from blood donors when his platelet count got down to dangerously low levels. Seth received a treatment of IVIG, or intravenous immunoglobulin, which is a transfusion that is comprised of over 1,000 blood donations.  Jackie said, “I just can’t imagine if there weren’t people donating platelets, donating blood to make those treatments that could be a life or death situation for a child.”

KEVN Black Hills FOX news station held their first Black Hills FOX Heroes Blood Drive on January 2nd and 3rd at the Rushmore Mall in Rapid City, South Dakota.  Donors received a free t-shirt, food catered by Olive Garden and a chance to win an iPad Mini. The event brought in 103 donors and 122 units were collected by United Blood Services in Rapid City, South Dakota.

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