Betsy, wife and mother of a 3-year-old and a 10-month-old, woke up one morning with a rash on her leg.
FOUR days later she was diagnosed with leukemia and given
just three months to live unless she got a marrow or cord blood transplant. Thankfully, through chemotherapy she achieved temporary remission, in time for a donor to be found— someone like you—on the Be The Match RegistrySM. “All I wanted was to be with my family and my children,” Betsy tells us. Thanks to her donor, she is healthy once again and doing just that. “I am eternally grateful to my donor for his lifesaving gift,” Betsy says. “My donor is a hero to my family and me.” “I’m alive today,” she beams, “because I had a transplant.”
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