Stories from Canadian Blood Services

Jahnis Gillan will never forget her first meeting with the stem cell donor who saved her life

Sanjay Prajapati donated stem cells as a partial match, as an agonizing search for more suitable donors came up empty

Donating stem cells can save a life

Then, less than a year into new fatherhood, Adam Coletta needed a second transplant — this time from an unrelated donor

Colin Dowler would almost certainly have died without transfusions of O-negative blood, delivered by paramedics who arrived by air ambulance

‘I had this sinking feeling that I wasn’t going to get the chance to watch my newborn daughter grow up’