SAN ANTONIO – Needles are removed from Riley Hammond’s favourite factor on the planet.
“You already know, the poke just isn’t enjoyable,” she mentioned as she began to rise up from a chair inside a blood donation bus. “However finally, I do know that this reward helps others”.
Hammond is one among many individuals who got here out to Rooster N Pickle on Sunday for a blood drive aimed particularly at serving to pediatric most cancers sufferers.
South Texas Blood and Tissue partnered with the nonprofit ‘Massive Love Most cancers Care’ to assist as many individuals as doable.
Massive Love Most cancers Care is known as after founder Jessica Phillips’s daughter Brooke, who was recognized with Leukemia at 3 years previous.
“Brooke, whereas she walked the halls, whereas she was an inpatient and wished to assist all the children round her. She could be getting poked, pricked, and he or she would hear a child crying subsequent door and be like, ‘Mother, we have to go and assist them’, mentioned Massive Love Program Director of San Antonio Amber Woodworth.
“So even whereas she was going by remedy, she cared about all people else simply as a lot. And so, Jessica, our founder, noticed that and was like, how can we proceed this in honor of Brooke after her passing?”
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