Oct 7, 2009 9:01 pm US/Eastern
Blood Drive Held For 3-Year-Old With Rare Disease
FLORENCE, N.J. (CBS 3) ―
A blood drive was held in Florence, New Jersey Wednesday to help treat a 3-year-old girl who suffers from a rare blood disease.
Peyton Green has Diamond Blackfan anemia, a blood disease which prevents her bone marrow from making red blood cells, the cells that carry oxygen through her body.
"How can you not do it when a pretty young girl like that needs it?" said a blood donor.
The tiny toddler's rare disease causes her to require life-saving blood transfusions ever three weeks.
"You need the blood, you need the hemoglobin, which carries oxygen to the vital organs in the body and without that, she'll go into organ failure and die," said Peyton's mother, Ashley Green.
On Wednesday, over 40 donors showed up to the Florence Fire Department for the Green's second blood drive, several of whom who arrived after seeing a CBS3 news report at Noon.
The Green's feel their effort will not only raise the blood necessary to save their daughter, but also to raise awareness about the need to donate.
"This is my way of giving back to them and saying thank you for donating," said Ashley.
Red Cross officials, in highlighting the importance of donating, tell CBS 3 that they receive between 1,100 and 1,200 pints of blood a day, nearly the equivalent amount of blood they also transfer daily.
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