b'Your gift trained staff on an ECMO life-support machine, helping Turrell survive serious lung illness.Your donation meantlife-saving equipment was available for Turrell When Turrell Smith went to Bon Secours Maryviewday he was on the ECMO device. Medical Center, his right lung was already necrotic andBoth Turrell and Daeja are thankful their local hospital deflated. His sister Daeja remembers the first days of hishad the ECMO technology and trained staff available illness well.when they needed it most. When he came in, he was breathing on his own, butIm really grateful they had the care I needed at they put him on bypass and then they intubated him,Maryview, Turrell said. A lot of people asked if I would she recalls. It all happened so fast. In the course of twohave gone anywhere else and I told them no. No telling days, we had to look at other options.if I would have gotten the same care as I got there. Fortunately for Turrell, the other option was anDaeja knows it was your generosity that saved her extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) life- brothers life. support machine. With your generous donations staff were trained on this technology.I was glad he did go to Bon Secours, she said. If hed For nearly two months, the ECMO technology allowedgone somewhere else, it could have been different.Turrells lungs to heal while the life-saving deviceThe ECMO machine was definitely a life-saving worked in their place to keep his oxygen levels high.machine for him, and we thank you for your generous Daeja, a nurse herself, monitored his progress everydonation of training the staff to use it.19'