First time meeting the donor who saved her life

How do you say thank you for saving? How do you tell someone? How do you express to someone thank you for giving me my

life

and allowing me to continue being a mother? I don t know how to do that. so unsuitable for the gift my name is ben tosca and this is my husband and we have been married almost 34 34 years it will be 34 years in the summer of 2016 I had not been feeling very well just a little tired alone I was not my usual self and I was very surprised to discover that it was a very aggressive type of leukemia.

They told me that if they didn't treat me, I would probably have about six more weeks to live because they said there was a potential cure in stem cell transplant. We decided to take the risk because I wanted a long

life

. I want to see my children and, hopefully, my grandchildren. That's on my agenda too. I don't have them yet, but it's on my agenda. They said we have a match for you and it's perfect. 10 out of 10 agreed, it was the beginning of the end of cancer, really in many ways, and really the beginning of getting my life back two years is a special day because we can register to find out who the

donor

is. sign up if you want to meet the other and we said yes we would like to give our information because we would love to thank the person who gave us the stem cells and the next thing I knew I received an email from Max telling me that he was my

donor

and from Germany I was stunned.

He attached a photo that his mother had taken of him making her donation. That stunned me because you don't usually see someone in the act of saving a life depicted in a photo. It was absolutely incredible. Yeah, he told us in the email that he had only been on the donation list two or three weeks when he got the call to say, Hey, you might be a match. It's like all the stars aligned for me to come into this healthy. healthy place, everyone gets excited when the bell rings because that means that someone has beaten cancer and it is something very important, it is a great moment and I rang that bell hard, I really rang it because I beat it, now we record on video the sound of that bell and when we responded to Max we included that video and then we decided we were going to meet up and pay a visit and we invited him and his family to come stay with us tomorrow.

We are very excited to welcome Max, his mother. and her partner, nice to meet you, it's a great opportunity, it's so good to see you, perfect, hello friend, thank you, thank you, thank you, now we share some things, sure, I'm happy that she's alive, that the donation worked and I'm happy to meet her, we registered as a team in our soccer team. All German teams do this, so we get a lot of donations. It was crazy to think that my blood traveled to Canada before I left. It wasn't that hard to donate, so I was lying down. in a hospital and I can switch between different movies that I saw like pirates of the Caribbean, so I use this to remind myself that it's easy to do good things and important things, it's easy like going to a movie and it can save some child. or mother, your brother, like everyone can get blood cancer and it's easy to help if you see what the outcome is, it's crazy.