The numbers behind the nationwide blood shortage have become painfully personal for a New Hampshire woman. Colleen O’Neill says she was told she needed a transfusion, only to learn there wasn’t enough blood. She hopes to get the word out to help others.
For O’Neill, something as simple as walking can take everything she has. The 62-year-old has anemia so severe she’s been hospitalized before and relies on a wheelchair to get around.
“You literally can’t function, there’s so much exhaustion,” said O’Neill. “I don’t even drive when my numbers are down this low because I don’t want to put someone else’s family at risk on the road because you literally can pass out with seconds’ notice.”…