It was an ordinary day when the call came from my daughter asking me to accompany her to a doctor's appointment in her home town. She said, "Something big is about to happen." In a flash, I jumped into my car and stayed by her side, along with her father, for nine months as she received chemotherapy every weekday for that entire time. She required eight donors daily for a while to give her the life-giving blood transfusions she needs to treat her leukemia. Laura, a single mother of two, was stalwart when the hematologist said, "Laura, you have a life-threatening, perhaps fatal, blood disease." to which she responded, "Do what you need to do to get me home to my kids!" No tears; just the resolve of a fighter. It's been ten years since then and Laura has remarried and is living happily ever after. That's why I, her Mom, is a blood donor. You?
