| Description: | Parenting and single mothers
What would you do if you were asked to save a stranger's life?
For Wendy Carlyle, her answer was unwavering. "It was never a question for me. Never."
Though first she had to get beyond the skepticism with which she took the call from Miami in 2008. The person on the other end told Wendy she was a possible match for a bone marrow transplant which could save the life of a man dying of leukemia. "And I was thinking it was a prank phone call, because I had NO recollection of registering. I finally said, I need to see something in writing because I don't know who you guys are!"
Arriving at her doorstep the very next day, the paperwork refreshed her memory of an event six to seven years earlier. A friend at her synagogue had egged Wendy into giving a swab from her cheek as part of a bone marrow donor registery sponsored by the Gift of Life Foundation.
A lot had happened to Wendy in those intervening years it's no wonder she forgot that day. Like |
