Blood donation close to me: A Pint for Kim blood drive at Naperville North Excessive College units state file, organizers say

NAPERVILLE, Sick. (WLS) — A file breaking variety of folks rolled up their sleeves for a blood drive at Naperville Excessive College on Saturday.

Greater than 600 pints of blood have been collected for the fourth annual “A Pint for Kim” blood drive.

The blood drive is known as in honor of Kimberley Benedyk Sandford. It started in 2020, when Kim, a spouse and mom of two boys, was battling a most cancers so uncommon that her case was one in 10 million.

At occasions, she wanted dozens of blood and plasma transfusions, which impressed her household to start out the #APintForKim.

Kim was concerned within the creation of the trouble, and her want was to have it proceed. Lots of preserve turning out every year.

ABC7 spoke along with her husband, who was the primary blood donor on Saturday morning.

“It’s fairly wonderful when you consider it. It is folks serving to folks, and so it simply struck a chord with us. Kim actually felt like, ‘Wow, I actually need to give this again.’ And, she instructed her physician one time, type of joking, she mentioned, ‘We’ll give this again 10-fold.’ However, she was flawed, as a result of it has been extra like 100-fold.”

This 12 months, A Pint for Kim is happening at Naperville North Excessive College, the place Kim’s sons now attend faculty. In line with organizers all of the beds have been full, all day for what’s thought of the biggest, single location blood drive in Illinois.

Not less than 100 extra pints have been collected this 12 months. Organizers mentioned it equated to 75 donors an hour.

You’ll find extra details about the occasion here.