7 year old Abron Frye from New Orleans loves Saints football and hopes to be a pro athlete when he grows up. Sadly, in Spring of 2021, he was diagnosed with T-cell Lymphoblastic Leukemia. Since then, he has received several blood transfusions as he undergoes chemotherapy. Even through the hardships of COVID-19 pandemic and Hurricane Ida, Abron’s family sends…
WWLTV’s Meg Farris sat down with Asher and Reed’s family to talk about their experience last fall and how blood donors saved their lives. Asher and his twin brother Reed were born 12 weeks premature, but Asher was soon separated from his brother in the NCIU as he was flown to another hospital for a life-saving…
Naja is a 16 year old cancer warrior who has been diagnosed with AML (acute myeloid leukemia), a cancer that attacks the blood and bone marrow. In 2019, Naja was declared to be in remission but unfortunately relapsed in January 2020. Unfortunately, this means more aggressive and intense chemotherapy is needed to put her back in remission. Chemotherapy…
Joy Simmons and her daughter Janiyah Lewis join us to talk about the need for blood and the effects of a low blood supply, especially for patients like Janiyah battling Sickle Cell Anemia.
3 year old Vivian loves coloring, singing, and dancing. For the past year, she has been battling Leukemia, a blood cancer. Blood transfusions helped her keep her red cell levels up while going through chemo, a precious gift when she needed it the most.
11 year old Kelsey dreams of someday attending art school in Paris. However, she faces complications due to Sickle Cell Anemia. In her journey so far, she has required 23 life-saving blood transfusions from carefully matched donors.