Last summer, two weeks after their first-born, Logan Cooper Barton, came into their lives, Julie Barton suffered a serious complication. Mobile plasma drive makes donating convenient for hard hit communities“Knowing that the blood supply was low, I was very fearful,” Julie Barton said. She said she’d heard news reports about the chronic blood shortages at the South Texas Blood and Tissue Center due to the pandemic. Despite that, Barton said she received the blood transfusions and plasma she needed because of someone being generous enough to give blood. And what a better gift than giving the gift of life?”You can find information about how and where to donate blood on the South Texas Blood and Tissue website by clicking here.