Tom Bennett is stable and in the coronary care unit, a family member reported Saturday afternoon from Louisville's Baptist Hospital East.
"The family thanks everyone for the overwhelming support and all the thoughts and prayers," said his daughter, Kate Bennett, 23, of Louisville.
"It's helping us get through this tough time."
Bennett, 56, a Frankfort native and former commissioner of the Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources, was diagnosed last week with a rare blood disorder, medically termed as thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura.
It causes clots when blood cells called platelets clump. Bennett must receive two treatments a day to replace the platelets in his blood.
Early last week family and friends of Bennett pleaded for plasma from AB positive or AB negative donors. Only 1 percent of the population have Bennett's AB negative blood type, according to the American Red Cross.
Several days later, the Bennett family received a statement from the Red Cross, thanking the community for the "outpouring of support for Tom Bennett. Red Cross is able to meet all of his blood product needs thanks to generous donors," the statement said.
His mother, Tommie Bennett, of Frankfort, said Thursday her son would have to be hospitalized several more weeks before he takes rehabilitation.
Before serving as fish and wildlife commissioner from 1993 to 2005, Bennett worked as deputy secretary of the state Natural Resources and Environmental Protection Cabinet and then in the office of Gov. Brereton Jones.