Posted on 12/08/2018 4:57:21 AM PST by BenLurkin
She said she was disheartened when she turned to a worldwide registry of donors and none were compatible.
"It was 30 million people," she said. "Thirty million people, and no matches for me."
So Rabaca and the rest of her family partnered with Be The Match, an organization operated by the National Marrow Donor Program, to encourage people to register to donate bone marrow.
Thanks to their fierce campaigning, Rabaca's story spread and gained attention from the likes of country singer Carrie Underwood, who asked her Twitter followers, "who wants to save a life for Christmas?" In a matter of weeks, tens of thousands of people had registered, Rabaca said.
Just days before she was to give birth, Rabaca got the good news: They'd found a perfect match.
Dr. Brianne Bimson, who treated Rabaca at Kaiser's Los Angeles Medical Center, said she was glad to see her patient triumph after fighting for so long.
(Excerpt) Read more at ktla.com ...
And what was under the Christmas tree ?
A matching donor’s bone marrow !
And two matching babies!
Amen to both of that, that’s great.
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