Karenai ravenscroft biography

Karanai Ravenscroft is sitting on the floor of her Cedar Park home with her two daughters Liv, 3, and Noa, 5.

They are finding the pieces of an ocean puzzle: There's a Nemo; there's an orca; there's a Dory.

It's a typical day for the mom of four, yet it's a day she's grateful for every day since she almost bled to death on May 11, 2022.

This Thanksgiving she is thankful for blood donors and Austin-Travis County Emergency Medical Services staff who saved her life.

She says she is alive today because her Cedar Park home is in Travis County and the Austin-Travis County Emergency Medical Services started a pilot whole blood program two years ago.

Thanksgiving, she said, "is not simply another meal (no meal will even be just another meal), rather the opportunity which has been gifted for to me to share another day, another memory, another breath, and another hug within the ar