Each year over the holidays, the blood donation centers struggle to get enough donors to meet the demands of our communities . During Matt’s illness, he received numerous blood transfusions.  He spent a lot of November and December at the infusion center or hospital getting blood both years he fought cancer. It always helped him to feel better and get the energy & strength he needed to be able to celebrate the holidays with our family. In 2020, we spent most of Christmas Eve as a family at the hospital while he got a transfusion. I remember Matt telling the kids that day about how other people’s generous gift of blood was helping to save his life & how we needed to pay that gift forward.

This year in celebration of Matt’s birthday on December 4th, the kids & I have decided to have a blood drive. Our goal is to get at least 53 donations in honor of his 53rd birthday. We are running the drive from today through the end of the year. You can donate wherever it is most convenient for you. Please just sign up on our sign up genius with your name and location or text or message me if you donate. 

Donating blood literally saves lives. We will forever be grateful for the extra time we got with Matt because of generous gifts of blood that were donated by complete strangers. Please help us pay this great act of kindness forward. God bless!

You can donate any day at the Nebraska Community Blood Bank in Lincoln & Omaha. Sign up by visiting the Nebraska Community Blood Bank’s website at https://www.ncbb.org.

The American Red Cross, is hosting a blood drive in Minden on Wed, Nov. 29th, 8-2 and Thurs., Dec. 21, 12-6 at Minden Public Schools. In Gothenburg, you can donate Fri. Dec 1, 8-1 or Mon. Dec 4 (matt’s birthday) 11:30-5:30. Please sign up to donate at the American Red Cross’s website at https://www.redcross.org. You can find other donation sites in Central & Western Nebraska on this website as well.

Please share with friends & thanks in advance!

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