For those of you that do not know, my mom is a teacher at McGavock High School in Nashville. This is also where I went to high school...many years ago! McGavock holds a few blood drives each school year for the Red Cross. For this most recent blood drive, my mom arranged with Mr. Strobel, the coordinator for McGavock, to do it in honor of Colby. I am so appreciative that he agreed to do this. When the student volunteers did the sign ups, they took a picture of our sweet Colby around to show everyone, along with his "heart story." To every one's surprise, they had the largest sign up that they have ever had! I am so impressed that all of these high schoolers were touched enough by Colby and his story to sign up to donate blood!
The blood drive was held this week, and they had an incredible 253 students show up to donate! As you can imagine, the Red Cross was very overwhelmed!! They had never seen this many students volunteer at McGavock. Needless to say, they were very understaffed and unable to accommodate this many donors, so unfortunately, several students were turned away. They only allowed 161 students to register, and they successfully collected 123 units of blood. This is still a great number!
I am just so humbled that all of these strangers were willing to donate blood in honor of Colby. We are reminded once again of just how special Colby is...just how special all heart babies are! I am so glad that Colby was able to help the Red Cross collect 123 more units of blood in addition to the blood they collected from our blood drive. Colby is truly a blessing!
Thank you McGavock High School Students, and thank you mom and Mr. Strobel for coordinating this in Colby's Honor!
The blood drive was held this week, and they had an incredible 253 students show up to donate! As you can imagine, the Red Cross was very overwhelmed!! They had never seen this many students volunteer at McGavock. Needless to say, they were very understaffed and unable to accommodate this many donors, so unfortunately, several students were turned away. They only allowed 161 students to register, and they successfully collected 123 units of blood. This is still a great number!
I am just so humbled that all of these strangers were willing to donate blood in honor of Colby. We are reminded once again of just how special Colby is...just how special all heart babies are! I am so glad that Colby was able to help the Red Cross collect 123 more units of blood in addition to the blood they collected from our blood drive. Colby is truly a blessing!
Thank you McGavock High School Students, and thank you mom and Mr. Strobel for coordinating this in Colby's Honor!
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Thats INCREDIBLE!! I hope we could make it to the next drive you have! Glad YOU enjoyed the cookies! I had to laugh out loud about it b/c jason made such a great deal about them. You go Girl! Was happy to share with such great neighbors.
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