TELLER COUNTY — The impact of giving whole blood in the field during emergency responses in Southern Colorado continues to save lives.

“It worries me to think about what might have happened had I not had that blood because here I am, you know quite removed from a from a hospital, so yeah it was really important,” said motorcycle crash survivor, Guy Theriot.

On a Saturday in August, Theriot went for a motorcycle ride with a buddy on the winding, rural mountain roads in Teller County.

He lost control and went down hard, breaking all of ribs on the left side of his body and causing internal injuries.

He said, “I have a scar that runs from just below my sternum to about three or four inches below my belly button, so obviously they opened me up quite a bit,

Doctors had to remove a lung, an

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