Family looks back one year after near tragedy, encourages blood donations

Katy Roybal was celebrating the birth of her first child when she suffered complications after childbirth and needed 22 units of blood and platelets. One year later, she and her husband are encouraging others to donate blood.

BY LEIGHANNE MANWARREN | Modified: December 24, 2012 at 7:52 pm | Published: December 25, 2012

As they celebrated the birth of their first child Dec. 22, 2011, Bryan Roybal noticed his wife, Katy, looked pale.

Hours after giving birth to daughter Jane, Katy Roybal was hemorrhaging.

photo - Katy and Bryan Roybal and their daughter, Jane, pose for a photo Thursday at their home in Edmond. Katy Roybal’s life was saved with 22 units of blood and platelets from the Oklahoma Blood Institute when she gave birth to Jane last year. Photo by Nate Billings, The Oklahoman

Katy and Bryan Roybal and their daughter, Jane, pose for a photo Thursday at their home in Edmond. Katy Roybal’s life was saved with 22 units of blood and platelets from the Oklahoma Blood Institute when she gave birth to Jane last year. Photo by Nate Billings, The Oklahoman

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“It was pretty intense from there,” Bryan Roybal said.

What was left of the new mom’s blood supply was going to her brain and her heart. She needed blood. After using up all the...
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