An 8-year-old boy was diagnosed with aplastic anemia, launching a desperate international search for a much needed bone marrow transplant to save his life.
Grant Berg, the 8-year-old boy, was kept alive by receiving multiple blood transfusions over a year and a half period. Then finally the search found a German college student halfway across the world that proved to be a match.
The National Monitor says that Marvin Zumkley, now 22, told KABC-TV that “It was crazy.” When he met the boy whose life he saved. Zumkley was 18 at the time of the bone marrow transplant that saved Grant’s life.
It was crazy. It was overwhelming, and it was just a good feeling (…) I’ve imagined it so often in my mind and now it is a reality.
ABC News reports that after staying up well past his bedtime to meet Zumkley, Grant fell asleep in the car on the ride home to Temecula, California. The plan is for Zumkley to relax for a few days, visit Disneyland and find other ways to enjoy southern California and get to know Grant.
Dr. Hillard Lazarus, who directs UH Case Medical Center’s novel cell therapy program in Cleveland, says aplastic anemia is a rare and serious condition in which the bone marrow stops producing new blood cells. This includes red blood cells, which carry oxygen; white blood cells, which fight off infection; and platelets, which mend blood vessels and stop bleeding.
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