A few weeks after giving birth, Ashley started hemorrhaging at home and was rushed to the hospital. She remembers one of the biggest problems at the hospital was finding enough blood for her.
“I’m O negative, and in the ER they were just giving me bags and bags of blood because the blood was just coming out faster than they could get it back in me.”
Ashley spent 16 days in the ICU and wound up needing 19 units of blood, four units of platelets and four units of plasma, along with emergency surgery to remove her uterus, to save her life.