When 38-year old Vicky Campbell arrived at Charleston General Hospital last week after being crushed by a tractor trailer doctors didn't expect her to live through the night.

So far however, Campbell's defied the odds. Her recovery will be a long one, Campbell is scheduled to have multiple rounds of surgery and that means she'll need more blood transfusions. She's already received over 60 units of blood.

"She's doing great compared to when we first brought her in," her husband Steve Campbell said.

Last Wednesday, her husband was driving a tractor trailer carrying heavy equipment when Vicky somehow got pinned between the trailer and a hillside. It a situation like Campbell's that the Red Cross says emphasizes the importance of donating blood, especially now, because it says blood banks have less than a weeks supply of all blood types and less than a day's supply of types O positive, O negative, A negative and B negative blood.

"Blood is needed everyday," Cheryl Gergely of the Red Cross said. "There are emergencies going on everyday."

The Red Cross issued an emergency appeal for donations on Monday and is extending hours at donations centers. Campbell's family is also calling on people to donate, not just to help Vicky, but to help others as well.