Hundreds of people rolled up their sleeves Saturday to help save lives during the Jacksonville Jaguars’ 10th Annual Touchdown for Life Blood Drive at the Prime F. Osborn Convention Center.<\/p>\n
The event, hosted in partnership with OneBlood, encouraged community members to donate blood during one of the most challenging times of the year for maintaining a strong blood supply. Donors received a Jacksonville Jaguars preseason home game ticket and a limited-edition T-shirt.<\/p>\n
Among those who donated were Katie and Nathan, a Jacksonville couple who have made blood donation an annual tradition for the past 18 years.<\/p>\n
“We wanna make sure we give back and save lives,” Katie said.<\/p>\n
Their commitment to donating stems from a deep personal experience.<\/p>\n
After giving birth to their oldest daughter 18 years ago, Katie suffered life-threatening complications and required multiple blood transfusions to survive.<\/p>\n
“Our oldest daughter, when she was born, I actually needed a few units of blood because I mean, if not, I would’ve died and he would’ve been alone with one little girl,” Katie said.<\/p>\n
Since then, the couple has returned every year, hoping their donations will help another family facing a medical emergency.<\/p>\n
“It makes me happy and I know that somebody out there is either doing better or possibly still alive because of this,” Katie said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hundreds of people rolled up their sleeves Saturday to help save lives during the Jacksonville Jaguars’ 10th Annual…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":352666,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[99357,144217,144218,116,118,121,117],"class_list":["post-352665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-blood-drive","tag-blood-supply","tag-blood-transfusions","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-jaguars","tag-jacksonville-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=352665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352665\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/352666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}