The 2nd Annual Blood Drive in honor of Colby Chance will be held on Saturday, February 20th from 9-2. The drive will take place at Hendersonville Church of Christ again this year. We are really excited about doing another blood drive. We were completely overwhelmed by the response that we had last year and are hoping to meet or exceed that this year. There were 75 people signed in to donate and 65 successful donors. So, this year, our goal is to reach 70 successful donors. With all of your help, we can do it!
We were also overwhelmed by the amount of baked goods that were donated last year. Several people mentioned that we should have done a bake sale to raise money, and Jason and I completely agree! Since the drive is in honor of Colby and it is in February, Congenital Heart Defect Awareness month, our hope is to donate the money to a CHD research project at Vanderbilt Children's Hospital. I have a good friend and Nurse Practitioner at the hospital looking into this for us now. Since Colby's birth, I have told Jason that I want to do whatever we can for CHD research. Maybe one day, they can find a way to make these "heart babies" journeys just a little easier. So if anyone would like to donate baked goods again, it would be greatly appreciated!
Please feel free to send me an email if you are interested in giving blood, donating baked goods, or volunteering at the blood drive. We are hoping to have a Red Cross schedule posted online where you can sign up to give blood directly. I will post that information as soon as I receive it from our Red Cross Representative.
I want to thank everyone again for making last year's Blood Drive such a huge success. Our hopes is for this blood drive and bake sale to be just as successful! We are very thankful to the Red Cross for supplying the much needed blood for Colby after his two surgeries, and we want to show our thanks by helping them to replenish their blood supply. I would hate to think what would happen if Colby did not have the blood he needed available.
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