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CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas – A Sinton family met emotionally on Friday when she finally met the woman who saved their daughter's life with her bone marrow. The Corpus Christi International Airport hosted the special meeting between Laynie Houser and her bone marrow donor Alyssa Kohls.
It all began in May 2015, when the Houser family was hit by big news. Their 7 year old daughter was diagnosed with a rare and potentially fatal condition, aplastic anemia. According to the Mayo Clinic, aplastic anemia is a condition that occurs when your body stops producing enough new blood cells.
The Housers were told that the only way to cure their daughter was to find a bone marrow donor. Something that is not as easy as you might think. But fortunately, Houser were among the lucky ones, able to find a match.
"They just rehearsed that we were working on it, we are working on it, we have expectations, we are going to find a match, and we have done it," Holly, Laynie's mother said.
This match was in the form of Alyssa Kohls, a Wisconsin Surgical Nurse. She had the idea to register as a donor when she organized a bone marrow registration campaign at the college. But she says that she never expected anything to come of it.
"You hear these stories from" Oh, I went on and I never got a phone call ", so I badumed the same thing would happen to me and a year and a half later, my phone rang and it was unreal, "said Alyssa.
After agreeing to donate and undergo additional tests, Kohl's bone marrow was sent to Laynie. And two years later, the two men finally met, more than 1,300 miles away.
And on Good Friday of 2017, Alyssa's bone marrow began flowing inside Laynie's body, giving her a new life.
To learn more about how to become a bone marrow donor, just visit bethematch.org.
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