3-year-old cancer survivor is a flower girl at the wedding of her bone marrow donor

When Hayden Hatfield Ryals received a call saying that a little girl with cancer was compatible with her bone marrow, Ryals knew she had to save her. Now, years later, the little girl thanked her donor in a special way by serving her as a florist.

Ryals is registered as a donor while she was at university in 2015, but did not think she would be a partner with anyone. "It's the easiest thing," Ryals told Dothan Eagle. "It's a swab – dab your cheek, put it in an envelope and they send it … I thought there's one in a gazillion of luck that I'd ever be a match. "

A year later in 2016, she The coordinator told Ryals, 26, that she was a tease with a little girl diagnosed with leukemia which she later learned the name. Skye Savren-McCormick

"I had struggled for a while; I had changed to commander, "said Ryals to Dothan Eagle." … I had a hard time finding myself and feeling as if I had a goal. So, the more I talked to this coordinator with Be the Match, I started telling myself, and if that is my goal? "

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Savren-McCormick was diagnosed with juvenile myelomonocytic leukemia just before on her first birthday in March 2016, CBS WHIO-TV affiliate wrote

Ryals donation helped Savren-McCormick find She had to face many complications and finally received a second transplant from 39, another donor in 2017.

While Savren-McCormick was battling leukemia, Ryals often thought of the child she had given, reported WHIO-TV. and patients wait a year before contact, and when the year is over, Ryals reaches out to Savren-McCormick's mother.

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Shortly after, Ryals asked if Savren-McCormick would be the flower girl in her next wedding. Once Savren-McCormick received a clean health note from her doctors, she traveled with her California parents to the Alabama wedding.

Savren-McCormick met the woman who saved her for the first time at the wedding rehearsal, reports ABC News. "I approached and fell to my knees and all I could do was smile," Ryals said.

Shortly after, Savren-McCormick impressed the crowd by throwing Ryals' present flower petals: a pearl bracelet inscribed with his name.

Both families say that they are eager to see each other again soon, reports WHIO-TV.

"They will be part of our lives forever," said Savren-McCormick's mother, Talia, according to ABC News, "She saved our daughter's life."

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