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Donors Recall Faces of Loved Ones Helped By Blood

29 views · Published 16 January 2014 · 1:58 · Indexed 21 September 2026

Channel: NBC 15 · 2014 · News & Politics

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MOBILE, Ala. (WPMI) I might need it one day, said one blood donor, It may be one my grandchildren.Giving blood is a very personal thing.In fact, almost everyone who sits in one of these chairs has someone in mind when they sit down to make their donation.My family, at some point, will need blood, said Payton, as he squeezed a rubber ball, forcing his blood into the collection bag, I will need blood, my loved ones... so when I have the opportunity, I do.For annual donor Stevie Ponquinette, he sees the faces of his mother and a brother lost to cancer.But he remembers how blood extended their lives and gave him precious extra days to create more memories.As devastating as it is to lose them, when you come and do something like this, it's just a way to give back, he says.When Local 15 account executive Jennifer Bryars gives blood, she sees a familiar face.My own, she says, bluntly.She nearly died after a accident on the Bayway back in 1996.Donated blood saved her life.I was in a coma for a week, she remembered, Broke my pelvic bone. I was out of work for three months.Spencer Baggott is the new pastor of the First Church of the Nazarene, the annual host for the drive.He recently returned from a stint as a missionary in Africa.The faces he sees are of those whose standard of health care is much less than our own.Medicine costs a lot here, said the pastor, but the confidence you have that you'll be taken care of? You don't have that in a lot of other places.The American Red Cross says more than 100 people will be helped by donation made at the drive.

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