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Meet a Local Teen on a Mission to Save a Stranger’s Life (v. 54)
November 16th, 2018
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Consider this:
Jack catching some sweet mountain air
Just about 18 months ago, I wrote in this column a letter of heartfelt thanks to an anonymous donor whose marrow now resides inside the bones of a dear, local teenage lad. In the time since our friend Jack (then 14) was rushed, on the eve of starting his freshman year at Tam High, to the emergency room with dangerously low blood counts, a lot has happened. Jack was diagnosed with a rare blood disease called Severe Aplastic Anemia, which, if left untreated, is fatal.
