Mother’s Day
Audrey and Evan’s Story: Mother and Son Go for Gold Supporting Patients
Earlier this year, milestone donor Audrey Gold had a very special donation appointment. At the same time that she gave her 164th donation at Stanford Blood Center, her 16-year-old son, Evan, gave his very first. Audrey has been donating blood...
Emiliana’s Story: Micro-Preemie Born at 23 Weeks Beats All Odds
By Krista Thomas, Communications Strategist In early 2019, Kristi Trog and her husband Josh were thrilled but also surprised to find out that Kristi was pregnant with their first child. The pair counted this news as a true miracle. Though...
Ben and Gail’s Story: Giving Together
Last year, donor Ben Brian hit an incredible milestone with SBC: his 500th donation. When asked what motivates him to give blood, among the usual answer of service to others and the free cookies, Ben mentioned that he has been...
Hadley’s Story: A Six-Year-Old’s Fight Against Cancer During a Global Pandemic
It’s hard to believe that for the bulk of 2019, Katy Crain knew very little about cancer. She considered herself lucky to have never had any close family members affected by it, and while she was sympathetic to cancer patients...
Julie’s Story: Loving Daughter, Dedicated Donor
At just 19 years old, Julie Cruzal’s world was shaken when, for the first time that she could remember, it was her own hero — her mom — who needed saving. On that fateful day, Julie witnessed the terrifying consequences...
Knoll’s Story: A Preemie’s Not-So-Little Battle
As first-time parents, Kylie De La O-Menard and her husband Guillaume Menard knew that there were many challenges they would have to work through as part of learning to care for a new baby — the exhaustion, the baby’s crying,...
Teddy’s Story: Overcoming Acute Myeloid Leukemia
When Teddy Oh was 18 months old, his mother and father, Won and Jin, knew something was not right. Teddy had had a persistent cough, and though his doctors did not think much of it at first, the cough was...
Driven to Serve: SBC’s Mother-and-Son Team’s Personal Connection to Donation
Note: Sue Belanger sadly passed away on May 18, 2020. Sue B. was beloved by her SBC family and donors and is greatly missed. You can read more about her legacy in her obituary, here, written by her son Geoff....
Nick’s Story: Open Your Heart to Donation
HOW BLOOD DONORS SUPPORTED A 15-YEAR-OLD’S LIVE-SAVING OPEN-HEART SURGERY On October 4, 2014, Nick Farrell* was riding high celebrating a momentous occasion: his 15th birthday. One week later, on October 11, he was grappling with a very different life-altering event:...