Dana and Rod Zamrik of Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, were excited to discover they were expecting twins. The couple had just moved, were beginning new jobs, and luck seemed to follow them.
"I had a normal pregnancy," Dana said. "Then one day, I wasn't feeling so good, and we would come to learn that my pregnancy had complications."
Dana was critically anemic. There wasn't enough blood to even conduct surgery. It looked as though she could die or worse, her twin babies would be gone with her.
"My heart was shutting down, my kidneys were shutting down, and my liver was shutting down," Dana said. "If it were the twins to survive or you to survive, what do you choose? It's one of those moments you sit there, you don't believe it's happening, but I had to make that decision, and of course, I said get the twins."
Fortunately, Dana was able to receive nine pints of blood in a transfusion. This saved her lives and the lives of her twins. Now, 11 years later, her twin girls are doing fine.
Dana is rehashing her story to shine light on her heroes: blood donors.
"I will always tell my story just so we can help somebody else, because you never know,” Dana said. “It doesn't have to be something tragic. It could be something very happy, like we were having at the time."
Dana is now an advocate for blood donation. Nine pints of blood means nine people saved hers. The process is simple, easy, and is nearly painless. The cost of your time can prevent the cost of life.
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