Stories from Canadian Blood Services

Blood donations gave Penn time for everything on her bucket list, from ‘eat ice cream’ to ‘visit Disneyland’

Jason Daum first learned of his exceptionally rare blood type after one of his first donations in years was selected for special tests

Veronica, who is Mi’kmaw from Cape Breton, was a stem cell match for Judee, a woman of Métis heritage on Vancouver Island

Stefan Baldwinson’s second transplant was enabled by a program for ‘highly sensitized’ patients who are difficult to match

The Highly Sensitized Patient program facilitated its first kidney transplant in Manitoba in 2014

This week-long sporting event highlights the life-changing power of transplant