A woman’s life was in danger when she was in labor and Minnesota State Troopers made a special delivery that saved her.Jenapher Blair was giving birth to her daughter,Adalyn, at Hutchinson Hospital, when she started bleeding excessively because of complications. But the hospital didn’t have enough blood on hand for her and the blood they needed was 80 miles away.
So five Minnesota State Troopers immediately jumped into action, forming a relay between St. Paul, where the blood was, and Hutchinson, where Blair was. A trooper rushed from a blood bank to a State Patrol flight crew at the St. Paul Downtown Airport, they flew it to the Hutchinson Airport, and handed the blood off to two troopers who rushed it to the hospital.
They were able to get the blood to Blair in just 65 minutes and doctors caring for her say she wouldn’t have survived if it hadn’t arrived so quickly. The scary event happened last month and Blair, the troopers and her doctors met this week and shared the story. “It was all a shock, but we came through very well. Baby is just fine,” the mom explained, telling the troopers, “Thanks to you, my kids have their mom.”
Source:KSTP
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